“Rainbow Tesseract”

Exhibited at The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA, October 2004
in a show of fiber arts by employees
(click on the image to see a more detailed view)

Washington: Corporate Arts Program hosts fiber exhibit Oct. 4 - 30

The Corporate Arts Program is pleased to welcome to the MITRE 1 Atrium
Gallery a group of MITRE fiber artists.

The 11 exhibitors, all MITRE employees, work in various fiber media,
including hand-dyed fabrics; quilting; embroidery; card and loom
weaving; fabric stamping; and knitting and crochet with a variety of
yarns.

For many of the artists, working with fiber has been a life-long
activity. For others, fiber art was a late, but highly rewarding
discovery.

...[Exhibition labels provided by the artists]...

Norma J. Taber
Latch hook wall hanging

I love geometric shapes and bright colors. I designed this piece after
reading a book on four-dimension visualization that describes how to
draw a four-dimensional cube (known as a "tesseract") in two
dimensions. I chose the rainbow coloring to highlight the eight
three-dimensional cubes that form the "sides" of the tesseract in the
same way that six squares form the "sides" of a cube. The white area in
the middle is the intersection of all eight cubes.
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