Ariel Benney

Statement

As an artist, my mission is to highlight the beautiful intricacies of mathematics. Math is everywhere and through the art I make, I hope to convey both the undeniable truths that only exists in mathematics as well as show the world through my mind. I believe that in learning math one learns the universe. Thus, there could be no subject matter of more significance to me. These pieces were designed with both those who already love math and those who don't in mind. For those of you who already have a passion for mathematics, I hope something in this work resonates with you. And if you, like many, have not enjoyed math historically, I hope this work sparks an interest and leads you to explore the beauty of mathematics for yourself.

Artworks

This piece depicts the graph k7 embedded on the double torus and was inspired by the wonderful topic of graph theory and the fun my peers and I had trying to visualize the embedding of larger and larger complete graphs on different surfaces. I originally drew this piece on a whiteboard in the tutor center at Western Colorado University, then later printed it by etching the graph and the torus on separate zinc plates and stamping them on one another.

Crystallographic Patters, sometimes referred to as a planar patterns or wallpaper patterns are a repetition of patterns that tile the Euclidean plane and have translations in two independent directions. There exists only 17 distinct planar patterns. The piece above is a screen print of the planar pattern ** that was inspired by my senior seminar in mathematics.