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This is from a series I created a few months ago. All 5 images are derived from (to my own amazement...) the Mandelbrot set! Wrote a special artist statement for them, cuz I think they really represent alot of what I feel my art is about:

Infinite Creatures….

As an artist I use fractals and other systematic processes to explore the structural patterns that emerge through growth and evolution in the natural world. I am interested in the idea that vary simple patterns can be found underlying the most complex forms, from the human body to the universe as a whole.

A startling example of the close connection between natural and mathematically occurring patterns can been seen in these images, derived from the Mandelbrot Set. These fractal images, created using a simple two-element equation, evoke suggestions of microscopic organisms, plant cells, even the familiar double-helix of human DNA.

What does it mean when something purely (some might say coldly) mathematical can produce such primal, organic forms? Could it be that life in all its intricacy is founded on something as simple as the pattern of a single cell? This is the soul of my work: probing the exquisite simplicity, that leads to such infinite complexity.

Made it into the January exhibition on Projekt30 . I've also submitted them for a jurried exhibition in New York. Wish me luck!

Description
This is from a series I created a few months ago. All 5 images are derived from (to my own amazement...) the Mandelbrot set! Wrote a special artist statement for them, cuz I think they really represent alot of what I feel my art is about:

Infinite Creatures….

As an artist I use fractals and other systematic processes to explore the structural patterns that emerge through growth and evolution in the natural world. I am interested in the idea that vary simple patterns can be found underlying the most complex forms, from the human body to the universe as a whole.

A startling example of the close connection between natural and mathematically occurring patterns can been seen in these images, derived from the Mandelbrot Set. These fractal images, created using a simple two-element equation, evoke suggestions of microscopic organisms, plant cells, even the familiar double-helix of human DNA.

What does it mean when something purely (some might say coldly) mathematical can produce such primal, organic forms? Could it be that life in all its intricacy is founded on something as simple as the pattern of a single cell? This is the soul of my work: probing the exquisite simplicity, that leads to such infinite complexity.

Made it into the January exhibition on Projekt30 . I've also submitted them for a jurried exhibition in New York. Wish me luck!