Rubber bands pull thirty woven lollipop sticks toward a central
point, and this symmetric structure emerges at the equilibrium.
Designed and constructed in January, 2010. The center of the
Black Hole consists of sixteen rubber bands: one white band
clamps 15 others to create 30 loose ends—one for each stick.
These rubber bands are the only structural support present.
During construction, cardboard scaffolding supported the rods as
I weaved and looped them through the rubber bands. This picture
was taken just before the final scaffolding was removed. Thirty
lollipop sticks are pulled toward the middle of the Black Hole
by rubberbands; the sticks desperately oppose their crushing
doom by bracing against each other. From the equilibrium emerges
this dodecahedrally-symmetric form. Each stick is supported
against the central pull by four other sticks, and in turn it
helps brace four more sticks. So in total, each stick touches
eight others. The configuration can be imagined geometrically as
follows: place a long r