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Faces of Chaos
After working with the equations in my Strange Attractors series for a few years, I began to wonder if there was a way to capture the nature of the system, visually. In other words, what is going on here at a higher dimension, at the “meta” level? These questions birthed the Faces of Chaos series, which visualize the system using a unique mapping of the Lyapunov exponent to the image plane. At a more subconscious level, the images and titles I chose from the myriad of possibilities evoke an almost mythological aura, with archetypes such as “king” and “warrior” emerging from the chaos.
Untiled Faces is an interactive sculpture that mixes a chaotic dynamical system with its “meta” representation, allowing the viewer to explore the somewhat unpredictable four-dimensional parameter space by moving a series of levers. This work builds off both my Aesthetic Explorations and my Faces of Chaos series. With the former, I am exploring individual strange attractors—each image encodes four specific parameters. With the latter, I am exploring the space of all possibilities, and each image encodes a range of parameters [Read More...]
Owl King and Chinese Warrior got a dip in water, tea, and coffee, were hung out to dry, and eventually became two box kites. Here are some process images:
One of the thousands of images generated during development of the Faces of Chaos series, chosen for its subtle detail and evocative overall form. What do you see? An owl, spider, space ship… something else?
Two artworks created from thousands of individual “faces” during my exploration of Lyapunov space. With gaping, leering mouths and fractured skull-like forms, these images evoke tribal customs surrounding death or spiritual forces. The latest incarnation of these death masks finds them inserted, mirror-like, into oval Baroque-style frames: And here’s what they looked like in my solo exhibition, Process & Influence:
