A rchive Date
[ 21-12-2001 ]
Category
[ Art & Literature ]
sub-Categoy
[ Mass Media ]
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Fractured Beauty
The Imagery 
Linda Allison
Copyright © 1997-99 Rollo Silver
Fractal art is a new form that is even now taking shape in the world under the hands of a few devotees, of whom I am one. Each of my pictures brings forth in color an image of a form which, for me, exists not in this universe, but on another plane of existence -- the complex plane.
How can we come to know a pattern from another universe -- a universe outside (or deeply inside) our own? The bridge between the two is built of mathematics and color. Each fractal pattern is defined mathematically by an iterative process which is carried out by a computer. The major part of the work of a fractal artist is to choose a pattern and a palette of color to bring the image to birth in our familiar world. These images lie athwart the boundary between art and science -- perhaps that is where their intriguing quality comes from.
Albert Einstein tells us that: When the world ceases to be the stage for personal hopes and desires, where we, as free beings,
behold it in wonder, to question and to contemplate, there we enter the realm of art and of science. If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelationships are not accessible to our conscious thought but are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art.
Common to both is the devotion to something beyond the personal, removed from the arbitrary.
Bubble Ferns
Sylvie Gallet
Copyright © 1999 Rollo Silver
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