Ornamental Orbits by Yul Jorgensen

Ships flat · Opens into orbit

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What is an orbit?

OR·BIT

\ ˈȯr-bət \noun

1aa path described by one body in its revolution about another

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Fig. 1 A body on an elliptical orbit speeds up near the sun and slows down far from it, sweeping out equal areas in equal times. Each ornament plays on the same idea: rings within rings, opened around a gold core.

Printed flat

Every ornament is 3D printed flat, as one layer of nested rings, and that is how it ships to you.

Bend each layer

Start from the inside. Each ring pivots on two small tabs and turns away from the one around it.

Hang it in orbit

Opened up, the rings become a small planetary system for the branch, with a gold sun or star at its core.

The collection

Silver orbits, gold suns, and four-point stars, offered together as one complete set.

Large orbit ornament with a gold sun at its center

Four-point star ornament with a gold core

Two nested orbit ornaments hanging from a pine branch

The full set of ornaments under a beam of light

Close-up of a star ornament among pine needles

A new direction

Ornamental Orbits started in the studio as prototypes for the larger celestial sculptures I'm developing. Before anything is built at full size, I print a small-scale version of each concept on a multicolor 3D printer. It lets me test every connection and check the scale long before the real piece exists.

Somewhere in those rounds of iterations, these little treasures emerged on their own.

Every ornament is 3D printed in lightweight filament as a single flat layer that you open by hand into three dimensions. I wanted to share that journey and make something you can take with you: a small treasure found on my exploration into the cosmos.

A universal gift

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