2019 Joint Mathematics Meetings
Anna Ursyn
Artists
Statement
Starkflake - The King of Shapes A triangle rules, as it has a power to create any other shape: – a circle – a rectangle – a square – an octagon – a parallelogram – a dodecagon – a trapezoid or any form: - a sphere - a cube - a cuboid - a cone - a toroid - a cylinder - a pyramid - a square based pyramid - a triangular based pyramid - a triangular prism - a hexagonal prism - a box - and all polytopes, and it can even stand for itself.
Artworks
Starkflake - The King of Shapes
29 x 48 x 2 cm
Archival print. 2 panels: an artwork and the corresponding poem.
2018
This is about a transition from 3D to 2D and back. Geometric is juxtaposed with organic. Mathematics can be seen as a way of describing Nature. The triangle is depicted as a king of shapes as it can generate most shapes and forms.
A set of glass triangles forming mathematical structure is juxtaposed with organic-geometric set of different snowflakes. Snow crystals were photographed by Wilson Alwyn "Snowflake" Bentley,. At the beginning of photography he captured over 5000 snow crystals as glass-plate photomicrographs with an early camera he adjusted. He said no two snowflakes were alike and called them: "tiny miracles of beauty" and "ice flowers." The snowflakes were created in Adobe Illustrator. One can find many triangles in crystals.