The story behind this piece
In 1974 Roger Penrose found tiles that cover the plane with no gaps yet never repeat. This is his P3 tiling of thick (72°) and thin (36°) rhombs of equal side, generated exactly by seven rounds of Robinson-triangle deflation from a five-fold 'sun': every triangle is cut into smaller ones in the golden ratio φ = (1 + √5)/2. The pattern has five-fold symmetry about a single point, placed on a golden section of the canvas, and no translational symmetry anywhere. Fine ivory lines trace the same tiling inflated by φ², revealing its self-similarity, and the caption counts the tiles on the face: the ratio of thick to thin approaches φ as the tiling grows. Deep teal, warm gold, endless and unrepeating.
