Sabetta Matsumoto & Onye Ndika

My heart is a little less heavy after reminding myself that I did have a good time at #BridgesMathArt2025
(Photo of Sabetta & I after the fashion show)

African American woman wearing a dark silver headscarf, long silver tube earrings, glittery eye makeup & a beaded headdress made with wire & beaded-beads.

"Platonic Crown Jewels" A head-dress featuring the 5 Platonic Solids, expressed as 9 beaded-beads, which were woven with vintage crystal beads, size 15 seed beads, 6lb monofilament. I combined the techniques of triangle weave, netting, spherical pentagon stitch, and CRAW (cubic right-angle weave). There are two beaded-beads representing each platonic solid, with the exception of the Icosahedron, which is the centered bead in the crown. The beaded-beads are anchored with sterling silver wire to a flattened-spiral steel wire band. The crown can be tied onto the head with the silver ribbon at the ends of the steel wire band. The Platonic solids were my first connection to three-dimensional geometry. I am continually enamored with using them as the primary building blocks for my artwork. This is my first time attempting to create any type of crown or head-dress using geometric beaded-beads as the focal point of expression. I am exhilarated with this result!

Text screenshot: A head-dress featuring the 5 Platonic Solids, expressed as 9 beaded-beads, which were woven with vintage crystal beads, size 15 seed beads, 6lb monofilament. I combined the techniques of triangle weave, netting, spherical pentagon stitch, and CRAW (cubic right-angle weave). There are two beaded-beads representing each platonic solid, with the exception of the Icosahedron, which is the centered bead in the crown. The beaded-beads are anchored with sterling silver wire to a flattened-spiral steel wire band. The crown can be tied onto the head with the silver ribbon at the ends of the steel wire band. The Platonic solids were my first connection to three-dimensional geometry. I am continually enamored with using them as the primary building blocks for my artwork. This is my first time attempting to create any type of crown or head-dress using geometric beaded-beads as the focal point of expression. I am exhilarated with this result!

Now that I've been notified of its acceptance into the fashion exhibition, I will share:
"Platonic Crown Jewels"👑💎

(Art description in 3rd photo.)
Very excited to walk this down a runway in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 at the Bridges Math Art Conference this July. 😎

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