Einstien Hats, 2025, woodfired ceramic, 0.25 x 1.5 x 1.5 in. / 0.63 x 3.81 x 3.81 cm.

Einstien Hats, Adele ODowd, 2025, woodfired ceramic, 0.25 x 1.5 x 1.5 in. / 0.63 x 3.81 x 3.81 cm.

einstein hats create aperiodic tiling — a pattern that never ever repeats. From the German “one stone” (and the physicist), the shape can create an infinite plane and may help us puzzle together pieces of the universe. The shape was discovered and mathematically proved in 2023.