2015 Bridges Conference

Lisa Kattchee and Karl Kattchee

Artists

Lisa Kattchee and Karl Kattchee

Artist and Mathematician

Coralville, IA and La Crosse, WI

Statement

This brother/sister collaboration is based on the premise that mathematics and art are inseparable and they interact on many levels.

Artworks

Image for entry 'Theory of Intersection'

Theory of Intersection

70 x 55 cm

mixed media on canvas

2014

After going to the trouble of posing a combinatorial problem about the flow of traffic at an intersection, diagramming the solution, and covering the plane with multiple copies of it, we were drawn to the interesting nonconvex polygonal form that appeared in the negative space. That polygon is the focus of this painting.