I seem to have developed a fascination for eight pointed stars. I’m seeing them everywhere.
Up on the ceiling like a kind of night sky.
Or constructed from pieces of wood with emblems in the middle.
Cut into the roof to create star shaped sources of sunlight.
On the floor.
or on the walls.
Aren’t they beautiful? In their variation, in their detail, and in their design.
Super lovely. Reminded me of a task I set for treasure hunt in TRinity College Dublin. The Museum Building there http://url.ie/zop1 has floral frieze all round at about shoulder height. Each motif is different and some are 8-pointed. The task was to see if the frequency of dicot (4s and 5s) motifs vs monocot (3s 6s) ‘flowers’ matched the relative freq of monocots vs dicots in the Irish natural world. The interior of the Museum Bld is like a Victorian Alhambra – not so subtle as the original, wetter and rainier and the views through the windows less spectacular.