math poems on art

Mark-making

Math loves poems, Geometry is arboreal, Stochastic art coincidental. Algeraic art hates gestural mark-making to create art that has no direct connection to reality.

Harmonic mean is the reciprocal of arithmetic mean of reciprocal. Unhealthy self-criticism comes from being too obsessed with one’s results.

male numbers

What it means to be a successful human? Drawings invite viewers to consider the beauty and precarity of our world.

male numbers

"If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem".

Bjarne Stroustrup

There is no safety in numbers; do believe in art.

Sgraffito as a mark making technique

Why should beauty be suspect? Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Anselm Kiefer, Nobody knows all of math, not even the best artists.

Sgraffito as a mark making technique, potato prints.

Cap duck mystery

Drawing is known to lower stress levels and promote mental calmness. The result is a highly layered artwork — somewhere between painting, printmaking and collage. Printmaking played an essential role in Picasso’s oeuvre Still Life with Bottle of Marc.

Placing the art itself at the forefront, minimalist snails de-emphasized personal expression, challenging viewers to engage directly with the reality of the things.

In 1928, in one of the most astonishing examples of nature following math, the physicist Paul Dirac found that a quantum mechanical equation describing the electron had two solutions.