Peter Corwin
Traverse City, Michigan

The Gold Standard

Chocolate bricks, 1 x 1.6 x 2.6 cm each

In many South American native cultures, for instance the Inca, chocolate was a often worth as much as gold and was often used as currency.) Using the ideas associated with chocolate, I molded the chocolate into blocks with dimensions 1 x x ^2. is pronounced phi is the Greek letter used to express the golden mean (approximately 1.61803). The combination between and chocolate is intended to bring out the idea of gold as an item of currency and gold’s association with perfection, the latter of which is represented by perhaps the most-perfect number.