A heavy metal artwork has been nicked from a Paterson park ahead of its intended donation to a preschool.
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Metal sculptor Bill Cummins crafted the stainless steel artwork for an exhibition earlier this year in memory of his late friend and former head of mathematics at the University of Newcastle, Prof John Borwein.
The mathematically-inspired pieces are all platonic solids – a shape that is identical in shape and size on every side – a criteria fulfilled by the tetrahedron, cube octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron.
Following the exhibition, Bill was set to donate to Paterson Preschool a large, silver icosahedron, with the classic artistic figure of the Vitruvian Man carved into each face.
While waiting for the artwork to be picked up, Bill stashed it in the park across the road from the Paterson Tavern. To his dismay, he returned a day later to find the piece stolen.
“It doesn’t make sense – it's a unique piece of work but you can’t display it if it’s stolen,” Bill said.
“It’s annoying, people steal things just because they can.”
Bill requested that anyone with the piece drop it off at a police station, no questions asked.
“It’s got no use to them,” he said.
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