Juan J. G. Escudero
Artists
Statement
Mathematical art?… Contradictio in terminis?… Mathematics as a source of ideas for artistic practice to explore breaking of conceptual frameworks and composing fragments of a deeper fictional reality.
Artworks
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132-CY-10-8-17
27 x 31 cm
Digital Print
In this case the basic varieties are a singular surface and a Calabi-Yau threefold. The image is obtained after an analysis of some of their shadows or projections.
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129-Delt+2Circ-Tj36
40 x 19 cm
Digital Print
These works are based on special members of a series of singular algebraic varieties and Calabi-Yau threefolds defined over the rationals obtained recently ("Singular and Calabi-Yau varieties linked with billiard trajectories and diffusion operators". Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Vol.197, 1613-1629 (2018),
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10231-018-0739-7 ).