Artist Martin Shields, the longtime Bollard contributor who created our signature anti-hero, Bollardhead, sent me this drawing last week. It’s Dodecawoman, a character whose sole costume is a dodecahedron, or 12-sided, three-dimensional geometric form.
Martin remarked that in Salvador Dali’s famous painting, “The Sacrament of the Last Supper,” a dodecahedron frames the scene, and the head-bowed figures of the 12 disciples are shaped like five-sided pentagons, a dozen of which combine to form a dodecahedron. Geometrically, that’s the only possible form 12 linked pentagons can take.
The regular dodecahedron (there are several three-dimensional options) is a “Platonic solid,” identified by ancient Greek philosophers and mathematicians as one of five fundamental forms taken by the four classical elements (earth, air, fire, water). It’s the second-most complex of these forms, the most multifaceted being the icosahedron, which is made of 20 triangles.
Class dismissed!
The Portland Poets Society is hosting another Speak Easy open reading at Lincolns (36 Market St., Portland) at 7 p.m. (sign-up at 6:45 p.m.). Cover: $5 (21+).
Another sleepy Tuesday night in little Portland, Maine … yawn. How many world-class musicians are playing for free in craft brew pubs and breweries tonight? I mean, aside from Travis James Humphrey at Gritty’s, which we just told you about? Oh yeah, there’s Damn B doing their weekly jazz-funk gig at Oxbow Brewing Company (49 Washington Ave.) from 7 to 9 p.m. (all ages). No two shows are the same as the fivesome of Dan Boyden, Stu Mahan, Kyle Friday, Tyler Quist and Charlie Sichterman — all of whom have deep musical resumés — follow where the grooves lead them.
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