*A Buckyball is a form of carbon that is made up of 60 atoms and shaped like a hollow soccer ball.
I started this project just to see if it was possible to construct a “Buckyball” just with bamboo and cable ties. “Stupid idea”, I thought, “but what the hell.”
The bamboo I had collected was irregular, some of it thin, some thick and others were slightly bent… So I first had to arrange all the pieces according to ‘length’, ‘thickness’, ‘curvature’ and ‘stability’, cut perfect angles to form the perfect little, individual pentagons and hexagons and then had to put these newly constructed shapes together in a way that an “all around equilibrium” was achieved. To my surprise, it worked! On to the the next project.