The Hawaiian Green Turtle

This unique hand made sculpture is derived from a geometry between the hexagon and the square to create the shell of the Hawaiian Green Turtle. Serendipitously, the resulting geometry has the perfect openings for the wooden head and limbs to be placed. Only local Hawaiian woods such as koa, mango, milo, mac-nut and lychee are used.

The Hawaiian green turtle is an important symbol in the mythology of Hawaiian culture.

The Honu is a Hawaiian symbol of creation, longevity, peace and the spirit within.

In Chinese mythology, the sea turtle also represents wisdom. The shell of the turtle is said to have the markings of heaven and earth upon it. It is also said that the Turtle had risen from the depths with the markings of the eight trigrams on its back. These are used in the I Ching and the Bagwa.

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The sea turtle mirrors the health of our planet and the struggle for survival for these ancient creatures is in our own hands.

Garnet city. Architectural Dodecahedronism.

Always thought that this would make a beautiful Japanese tea house.

This is a dream of a structure for which I have invented a truss system. I would love to have say 5 acres of land subdivided into hexagonal plots and offer them to the public who would build a rhombic dodecahedron (RD) homestead upon an exact hexagonal grid floorplan. Eventually over time it could be developed into a tetrahedral pyramid as families would add another RD to their dwelling.
It may qualify for a humanities grant to research how socio-logically the site would develop.

This is a paperweight model of a Japanese Tea House. Notice the architectural problem that the builder is having trying to put a smaller upper deck onto a larger lower deck. The problem is one of orthogonality. It works so much more elegantly by using rhombic dodecahedrons as seen above.

Here is the perfect location where I have built a two level rhombic dodecahedron structure.
It is well used as a shelter for local wildlife and as a place of meditation.
There is a joy in being surrounded by the virtual matrix design of our universe.

In order to enhance the energy field I am planning to sink copper rods into the ground next to each post. There will be twelve in all.
I will join long lengths of copper braided ribbon to each rod and then attach these ribbons, running from bottom to top, to the exterior framework of the structure. The twelve copper ribbons will be joined at the peak.

The final result.... a secret jungle retreat!