Matteo Pagliariccio

Statement

"There remains one a priori fallacy or natural prejudice [...] that the conditions of a phenomenon must, or at least probably will, resemble the phenomenon itself." (Mill, 1843). From a compact recursive relation, arches, thorns, and sudden voids may arise. Each detail echoes the whole and yet breaks symmetry. In the fractal proliferation of order windows among chaos nests, new symbols emerge as variations on a theme, sketching an existential topology. Grain becomes weather, gradients shape terrain, the gaze is tuned to boundaries, seeking room enough to breathe. In that very breath, meanings coalesce and one recognizes oneself. Emergent Landscapes is a series of nine portraits of a high-resolution numerical simulation of the logistic map.

Artworks

Ontology - Everything all at once. Scale - Eternal recurrence. Limit - Zeno's comfort Zone. Manifold - Unconscious tangle. Zero - Halfway point. Loop - The simplest picture of what is really going on. Valley - God's elastic acre. Field - A solitary local excitation. Relation - It precedes Relata.