Falling Leaves

Fall Montreal 2011

When we visited Montreal last year the maple leaves were "sweetly turning" a bright red.  My virtual and monumental sculpture celebrates the 'chaos and colour' of falling leaves and contrasts with the formal transparency of the monochrome  skeletal dome.

Inside the dome, which is located on an island in the Hudson River near the entrance to the St Lawrence Seaway, there is a museum-gallery dedicated to sustainable development and the protection of our environment.

As a long-time admirer of the late Richard Buckminster Fuller, engineer and environmentalist, I was pleased to take Toot to see the 'Geodesic Dome' designed by him for the 1967 Montreal World Exposition.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

The Geodesic Sphere

Geodesic structures have been used by many architects and engineers for rooves and walls in numerous projects around the world.


More recently,the geodesic dome was
chosen to encapsulate the various
environments at the Eden Project in
Cornwall.


In the last ten years, naturally forming carbon molecules have been discovered in clouds of molecular gas around distant dying stars. These molecules take the form of 60 carbon atoms arranged as a geodesic sphere. These molecules have been nicknamed 'Bucky Balls' in honour of a brilliant engineer and early environmental pioneer.

Lemon sole, chips, peas and fried tomatoes for supper. "Man cannot live by art, science and engineering alone" Brilliant!!