Blackboard Series
Works that document my exploration of straight line and compass geometry.
My interest in geometry is based on a search for fundamentals and the hope that through understanding the drawn basis of math it may change my understanding of the world. In this vein, working on the geometry inherent in nature, I have begun consider what a strange notion '0' is. As nothing is every really gone in nature. Also, how '1' could be considered as the largest number, the whole. Perhaps number systems influence society's philosophy towards the environment / nature? Could the abstraction of the additive decimal system with its infinite growth and the existence of '0' be a part of our removal from nature?
The paintings are works in progress, with each layer being rubbed out with a thin veil of black paint. The effect is to build a look which is similar to an old school blackboard. A history of learning...
My interest in geometry is based on a search for fundamentals and the hope that through understanding the drawn basis of math it may change my understanding of the world. In this vein, working on the geometry inherent in nature, I have begun consider what a strange notion '0' is. As nothing is every really gone in nature. Also, how '1' could be considered as the largest number, the whole. Perhaps number systems influence society's philosophy towards the environment / nature? Could the abstraction of the additive decimal system with its infinite growth and the existence of '0' be a part of our removal from nature?
The paintings are works in progress, with each layer being rubbed out with a thin veil of black paint. The effect is to build a look which is similar to an old school blackboard. A history of learning...
