Dahlia

Pentagons gathered in rings around each hexagonal hub, layer on layer, until the geometry settles into the dense, packed bloom of a dahlia. The sixfold symmetry holds the whole field in order while the rings of petals build outward from every center.

The figure is pure form — no source motif, no ornament, just the way the pentagons ring the hubs and the hubs repeat across the plane. What reads as a flower is only the geometry doing what packed, layered symmetry does.

At architectural scale the bloom carries a screen or a tiled floor. At jewelry scale one hub and its rings, cut from sheet metal, become a single piece of the larger field.