This installation is the product of imagination and inspiration and answering a simple question, ‘What if...?’
A collaboration from the mind of one of Montclair’s most creative and talented and your favorite coffee shop – we took to imagine what creative ventures could be developed in a shop where customers could temporarily (because of environmental factors) not join each other to sit and enjoy their coffee. ‘What if’ we utilized these chairs for another purpose?
Well, these chairs are now part of the installation ‘36’
This installation features a unique bespoke image on each of the 36 chair legs, each design inspired and tied to that respective number – 1 through 36.
Find below each number, applied to each chair leg, and the design that it inspired:
1.
Correlation coefficients. Used to measure the strength of relationship between two variables. A CC of 1 indicates a strong positive relationship, as shown through a line with data points which would be measured as having a CC near 1.
2.
Abstract depiction of a binary star, a stellar system which has two stars circling around a center of mass.
3.
First triangular number (number that can form a triangle). Shown through a triangular pattern.
4.
Sticker shows the common 2D depiction of the four dimensions.
5.
The number 5 in Persian looks similar to an upside down heart. This is distorted to form a pattern.
6.
Number six can be formed by the sum of its factors (1+2+3). Shown through fractions.
7.
The seven wavelengths of light.
8.
The eight planets and the route of every satellite/spacecraft which we have used to explore.
9.
Cats have nine lives!
10.
The smallest number where its status of what is called a ‘friendly number’ is unknown. A friendly number (represented by a smiley face) is ‘Two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy index, the ratio between the sum of divisors of a number and the number itself. Two numbers with the same "abundancy" form a friendly pair’
11.
The number for the Jack card, and the fourth Sophie Germain prime (a SG prime is when the number p AND 2p + 1 are both primes) . Germain is depicted as a jack.
12.
The twelve lunar cycles.
13.
Depiction of a bell number as a flower. An ordered bell number is the number of weak orderings on a set of elements- not that I know what that means.
14.
There are 14 Bravais Lattices, which are depicted. A Bravais lattice is “infinite array of discrete points generated by a set of discrete translation operations described in three-dimensional space”.
15.
The second hexagonal number. Has 15 points.
16.
A base to the power is the same as the power to the base: 2^4 = 4^2 = 16.
17.
Total number of Brodmann areas, which has to do with the senses.
18.
The number 18 in Morse code.
19.
Centered hexagonal number repetition.
20.
Twenty circles of lunations in the Metonic cycle.
21.
Carly Rae Jepsen’s birthday is November 21st, 1985. We ❤️ Carly Rae. Call Me Maybe?
22.
Maximum number of sections created when you cut a circle with six lines (Lazy Caterer’s Sequence)
23.
Birthday Party Probability- number of people where there is a 50% chance two people share a birthday.
24.
Kissing number (greatest number of non-overlapping unit spheres that can be arranged to touch a common unit sphere), in fourth dimensional space.
25.
Octagonal number.
26.
Shows sporadic groups, which is one of twenty-six groups in classification of finite simple groups.
27.
27% of the universe is dark matter.
28.
There are 28 convex uniform honeycombs.
29.
Number of days in February during a leap year.
30.
Forms a square pyramidal.
31.
Messier object M31 is the Andromeda Galaxy.
32.
Freezing temperature of water in Fahrenheit.
33.
ASCII code for exclamation point.
34.
M36 is the constellation Perseus, famous for killing Medusa.
35.
Number of combinations of six squares.
36.
The number of degrees of each angle in a pentagram, and the ASCII code for $.
About the artist
Kayla Weaver is a senior at Montclair High School and a person with many passions and pursuits. Her top three may just be art, science and coffee.
Somehow, all three of these passions came together in one very interesting and inspiring project, hatched in collaboration with Local.