Talia Blum

Statement

I am interested in breathing life into mathematical objects through art. I aim to place abstract objects in unlikely situations, and bring the viewer along to find both lightness and depth in the subject matter. My mathematical illustrations invite the viewer to ask practical questions about how abstract concepts interact with a tangible world.

Artworks

A topologist performs surgery on a two-dimensional manifold by first cutting along a circle, thereby creating two new boundary components, and then gluing in (or in this case, stitching in) two disks along these boundary components. This surgery has the effect of decreasing the genus of the manifold by 1.