Talia Blum
I am interested in breathing life into mathematical objects through
art. I aim to place abstract objects in unlikely situations, and bring
the viewer along to find both lightness and depth in the subject
matter. My mathematical illustrations invite the viewer to ask
practical questions about how abstract concepts interact with a
tangible world.
A topologist performs surgery on a two-dimensional manifold by
first cutting along a circle, thereby creating two new boundary
components, and then gluing in (or in this case, stitching in) two
disks along these boundary components. This surgery has the effect
of decreasing the genus of the manifold by 1.