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鈥淕eometric patterns illustrate how mathematics can cross the boundary into physical space, as shown by their widespread use in art, design, and architecture,鈥� Sun said in an article that appeared in a March 2018 issue of Interalia Magazine. 鈥淧atterns also play a role in science.鈥�

His work, on display at the Schweinfurth Art Center and Cayuga Museum of History & Art through May 17, merges digital photography and paper-folding techniques to create sculptural works that hang on the wall or dangle from the ceiling. Sun鈥檚 is the first of two exhibitions this year featuring emerging artists, selected by a joint committee of previous artists and staff from both institutions.

Sun is a particle physicist by training who has searched for subatomic particles beyond the Standard Model at Cornell University鈥檚 CLEO detector at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring. He has his undergraduate degree in physics from Harvard and his Ph.D. in physics from the California Institute of Technology. He currently serves as IT director for the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education.

It鈥檚 not unusual for scientists to also be artists.

鈥淎s an artist, I play with my visual materials the same way I played with data as a scientist,鈥� Sun said. 鈥淪o, if anything, my work is about perception and knowledge 鈥� the process of figuring things out 鈥� how we take facts or materials and organize them, transform them and interpret them until they become something meaningful.鈥�

That鈥檚 how he came up with his method for creating his sculptural works. While experimenting with folding his digital prints, he imagined a photograph shaped into a raised pattern. He set some parameters聽鈥� cutting and pasting was allowed聽鈥� and began experimenting until he settled on the snub square tessellation as the best fit.

A tessellation is a tiling pattern that repeats with one or more shapes and covers a plane with no gaps. A snub square pattern combines triangles and squares.

More experimentation followed until Sun made a discovery.

鈥淚 fold my prints into geometric patterns by following an algorithm (or recipe) that I invented,鈥� he said. He discovered a way of folding and cutting a single sheet that almost completely preserved the connection between the shapes.

鈥淚 also follow a looser algorithm going from one piece to the next; often, I use photographs of a finished piece as source material for a new piece,鈥� Sun said. 鈥淎nd that new piece, in turn, gives me source material for the piece after that, and so on.鈥�

Visitors can easily track the transition through his artwork. The Schweinfurth is displaying his pieces from the 鈥淒ouble Vision" series, which were created in 2018 and 2019 and feature multi-panel pieces that evoke a fragmented experience of looking.

Cayuga Museum hosts two different series of works: 鈥淏ig Bang,鈥� which channels his pandemic-era anxiety through photographs of a glitching computer monitor, and 鈥淩ose Window,鈥� an extended improvisation on mathematical diagrams, landscape photographs and calligraphic drawings/paintings.

鈥淗aving my work displayed in both the Schweinfurth and Cayuga Museum makes the exhibition so much more interesting,鈥� Sun said. 鈥淚 love seeing how my geometric vocabulary interacts with the different architectural styles. It adds a whole new dimension to the work.鈥�

Sun will be giving an artist talk about his work at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 3, starting at the Schweinfurth and moving to the Cayuga Museum. The talk, which is part of the grand opening celebration of the West End Arts Campus, is free and open to the public. For more information about Sun’s work, visit his website at .