2022 Joint Mathematics Meetings
Paula Krieg
Artists
Statement
I create works on paper and with paper. As I work to clarify and deepen my understanding of mathematics, I often explore concepts with 2D drawings and 3D paper constructions. Interesting and beautiful images and objects happen, but that's only partially my doing: mostly, it's mostly the fault of the mathematics that I'm poking at.
Artworks
Zhen Xian Bao Untethered
20 x 116 x 20 cm
Paper, Colored Pencil, Ink, Glue
2021
Traditional Zhen Xian Bao folders store needlework tools, using many kinds of ingeniously scaled boxes which collapse flat and hide layers. After unraveling how these boxes scale with each other I’ve been following explorations beyond what is customary: instead of storing tools, I’m storing 2D and 3D mathematical ideas, housing them here for easy retrieval. Hidden below the top layer hides a set of chiral pleats, flanking a page of cookie-like images created from rotations of geometric shapes. Hidden also are pages which have been cut and folded to create confusing ambiguity between front and backs of pages. The graphs of double variable equations have been exploited to become colorfully patterned papers adorning the cover and some boxes.