X / 0 needed displays for our first sales event. Our manifesto expresses our commitment to ideas which "help reinvigorate appreciation of the ineffable beauty and goodness in the world," so even for something this incidental we couldn't just go buy some stock pieces.

Interested in material and machine ecoonomy, we designed these to be nested inside each other so that there would be minimal scrap, and each inside cut of one piece would be the outside cut of the next smaller piece.

I've always been intrigued by the polyhedron in Dürer's "Melencholia I" - a "truncated triangular trapezohedron." This piece is probably the origin of my preoccupation with the possibility of ineffable connections between geometry and our earthly endeavors via our consciousness.

As Grass said, "In the midst of progress we find ourselves standing still. The excavated future. The mysticism of statistics. Gothically ornate ignition keys. Automobiles wrapped around trees." He described Melencholia I as "a struggle against the dead weight of things as they are."

So here, I present you our struggle against that dead weight, our display pieces for our first sales event, based on modified Dürer's Solids.