Bucky No. 19788

Description

Here is the U.S. Postage stamp from 2004 honoring R. Buckminster Fuller. He was an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary. Best known for the geodesic dome. This piece has 8 sides and is 3 13/16"x 3 1/4" on 60mil archival magnetic vinyl.

Since 1996 I have signed and numbered over 29,700 pieces. I was drawn to the magnetic media, because no other artist was using it the way I was. I saw other artist sticking a magnet to their art, I thought why not stick my art to the magnet. 12 years later I have found a few other artist using the magnetic vinyl in their own way, but no other artist in the world has used it like me. Everybody's style is unique. I still haven't found another magnet artist as prolific as myself.

If you look up my last name, Gauss, in the dictionary, it actually means unit of magnetic energy. I'm a distant cousin of the mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss. He discovered the mathematical theory of magnetism. So in a way I'm following my destiny.

Added on Sep 27, 2009