An unfolding of a brief moment in the braiding of the 3-sphere

This gentle, coloured pencil drawing came out of ten months of drawing studies, several attempts at large interpretations and many long Zoom sessions with knot theorist Scott Carter. It is based on Scott’s and Saiichi Kamada’s 3-fold branched cover of the 3-sphere branched over the trefoil knot. Below is the story of its conception.