Möbius Strip pendant carved from kahurangi pounamu - nephrite jade - white cord necklace || JF503

JF503 || Kahurangi pounamu Mobius Pendant, wax three-plaited white cord with sliding knots (burgundy) for adjustable length. Carved from the Nephrite Jade of deep spiritual and cultural significance to Māori - Aotearoa New Zealand

Pendant Dimensions: 21x21x6mm

The Timeless Journey of the Möbius Strip
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If you were to trace both “sides” of a Möbius strip, you would never have to lift your finger. A single-sided surface with no boundaries, the strip is an artist’s reverie and a mathematician’s feat.
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The figurative and narrative implications of the Möbius strip are rich: when you try to go forward, you ring sideways, when you try to circle in, you find yourself outside. It’s an apt allegory for losing control.
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The continuum of crossing a Möbius strip is emblematic of how we experience time in a nonlinear way. Artists, mathematicians and authors explore this phenomenon as well.
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The un-orientable quality of the Möbius strip is perhaps its most distinctive. Orient-ability can be defined as “a continuous choice of local orientation.” A more colloquial explanation: “a space is orientable if you can choose ‘inward’ and ‘outward’ or ‘up’ and ‘down’ directions at every point on the surface that are compatible: you will never accidentally end up at the same point but with ‘up’ flipped to ‘down.’”
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In a sense, this is how I feel when people talk about life. What you see depends on where you stand and where you face.
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Pounamu Jade Collection from Aotearoa New Zealand