INFINITY RINGS

INFINITY RINGS are inspired by a strip that is a continuum of planes invented by German mathematician, A. F. Moebius, in the nineteenth century. These strips are joined into rings that have no beginning and no end; the bottom side becomes the topside and the inside becomes the outside.  If you follow your finger around any one plane of a ring you will complete the circle and end where you started.

 After exploring the process and experimenting for more than a year, Charles Sherman developed a method of building hollow twisted ceramic rings. The rings are especially innovative and unique because hollow ceramic rings tend to collapse upon building or firing.

The continuum is the same principle on which M.C. Escher based many of his creative works. Like Escher’s drawings, where reversals of positive and negative space are explored, Sherman's work is all-intuitive since no math, calculator or extruder is used.

Charles Sherman's artistic vision is about exploring the creative process and digging deeper into the personal unknown.  For Sherman, this is where art and inner growth lie. Art and beauty are then, by-products of the creative process.