Jessica Wynne

Statement

Jessica Wynne's newest body of work, Do Not Erase, contemplates the meaning, emotion, and energy of symbols. Her photographs of mathematicians' chalkboards, and the formulas scribbled and erased on them, illuminate the narrative, and visionary elements of these representations, providing timeless meditation on the abstraction and intimacy of visual expression. While the formulas on each board are communicated in highly specialized languages from abstruse subfields such as knot theory, combinatorics, and ergodic theory, Wynne's work embraces the visual sensuality and intuitive impression of these complex calculations, linking them to the timeless lineage of artistry and writing: cave paintings, hieroglyphics, and graffiti.

Artworks