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Fish Ball

An M.C. Escher fish tessellation, cut from the most reflective material we've ever used.

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Twelve fish, one blinding ball.

An interlocking tessellation borrowed from M.C. Escher, cut from the most reflective, shimmery material we have ever worked with. Twelve fish panels wrap around the sphere, their tails curling into and through one another. With only twelve pieces it came together in a couple of days, and the bladder valve sits exactly where a fish's eye would be.

Specifics

Panels
12
Construction
Escher fish tessellation
Material
Shimmer leather

Escher is full of balls waiting to happen.

This one sent us down an Escher rabbit hole. The interlocking lizards, the evolving tessellations, there is a ball idea hiding in half of his catalogue. The fish was just the first.

Genuinely blinding. Not in a good way.

The scales reflect light so well that the ball finds a way to bounce sunlight straight into your eyes, every time. Effectively, it is guaranteed to blind whoever plays with it. Which did not occur to anyone while we were busy admiring how well it shimmered.