Josef Weese
Artists
Josef Cortez Weese
Undergraduate Engineering Student
Engineering Department, Northern New Mexico College
Española, New Mexico, USA
Statement
As minimalist conceptual artist, interested in graphing geometrical proofs, I start with those from Euclid's Elements, Book 1, in this case, 1.47, the Pythagorean Theorem. 2-D tree graphs easily expand to 3-D, interesting for me as they preserve the same data but are aesthetically much more pleasing. The results are mobiles, friezes, and free- standing pieces. The frieze, "The Proof, the Whole Proof, and Nothing but the Proof," appears in the Proceedings of Bridges 2016 Art Gallery. The 2019 free-standing submission, "The Pythagorean Forest," invites both me as artist and viewers to contemplate, from the forest's canopy, the network of 192 premises, fundamental for 1.47, teased into five trees to become the sculpture's forest.
Artworks

The Pythagorean Forest
31 x 53 x 40 cm
Birch (Betula) and Maple (Acer) Spheres and Blocks,Tumbled Obsidian--Materials Common in Ancient Greece; Glass Plates (Acrylic for Gallery Display)
2019