Unfolding Symmetry
2025
Steel, paint, acrylic
A deconstructed dodecahedron teeters between becoming and unbecoming, and the rigid geometry unfolds into something organic. Steel edges give way to petal-like planes, evoking both cellular structures and cosmic forms. What begins as a platonic solid becomes something floral and mutable: a gesture toward the connective tissue of the universe. Here, symmetry is not fixed, but in motion.
This artwork is the capstone project of Erica Rawson, the 2025 Design and Build Fellow.
SPECIAL THANKS:
Brian Mueller
Charles Levesque
Robert Turek
MOA Staff
Design and Build 2025: Tessellation in Bloom
Artist Fellow
Erica Rawson served as the 2025 Design and Build Artist Fellow.
Design and Build 2025- Tessellation in Bloom
Seven emerging artist interns came together over the summer, through our annual Design and Build Summer Internship Program, to collaboratively create several unique, site-specific installations for MOA’s Marjorie Park in only 8 weeks! Emerging artists worked under the direction of our 2025 Artist Fellow, Erica Rawson, and Resource Artist, Walter Ware, with additional assistance by Oliver Cruz.
The theme provided to the artists in 2025 was “sacred geometry: platonic solids.” Installations will be on temporary view through winter of 2025.
Emerging Artists:
Caroline Boyd
Emma Cayer
Kayli Cottonwood
Eloise Harcourt
OJ Johnson
Mia Martin
Bugzy Richards
The creation of our 2025 projects were generously supported through a facilities partnership with the University of Colorado Denver, College of Arts and Media and Metropolitan State University of Denver. Artworks were created within the sculpture fabrication studios on Auraria campus.