Stereographic Projection Dress

About

I designed and created a dress that demonstrates stereographic projection. The 3D-printed bodice represents the sphere. When lying flat, the gridded skirt that I hand-sewed illustrates the projection of the sphere from the point of projection (the top of my head) onto a 2D plane. 

The idea behind this dress stemmed from my love of art and mathematics. I have always been in awe of dimensional projection: from the fourth dimension to the third and from the third to the second, such as in stereographic projection. I wanted to share that excitement with others, and I did so through art. I specifically chose to express it through fashion to show that math is not necessarily abstract; it is something that surrounds us and something everyone, in a way, wears.