φ —lowercase phi— is the golden ratio. The number nature chose for growth: 1.618... A proportion that appears in the spiral of a galaxy, in the seeds of a sunflower, in the architecture of DNA. It is not an invented symbol. It is a discovered principle.
In the Platonic tradition, the dodecahedron —the solid with twelve pentagonal faces— is the solid of aether, the fifth element: the one that contains and transcends the other four. It does not belong to any one element. It holds them all.
That is how this tetralogy was born. Four novels. Four elements. Four Platonic solids. Four inks from the CMYK system which, when combined, produce the complete image. And φ as the dodecahedron that encloses them: the invisible proportion that organizes the whole.
Each book is an ink, an element, a Platonic solid. φ is the dodecahedron that contains them all.
A Colombian writer born in Buenaventura in 1975. A specialist in artificial intelligence. Based in Cali, Valle del Cauca.
φ is his tetralogy of philosophical and mystical fiction: four novels that explore consciousness, memory, transformation, and return through the four classical elements, the Platonic solids, and the CMYK color system.
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Seven philosophical questions. A pool of 28. Discover which of the four Platonic solids of φ belongs to you — Earth, Water, Fire, or Air.