Heather Minnebo

Statement

As both artist and educator, the line between exploration and play as artist and the research and planning as art teacher blurs with one feeding and inspiring the other. Recently, neurographic art entered this feedback loop. Drawn to its peaceful, visual complexity, I found it needed more structure, more connections to explore, so it waited in the back of my mind. Inspiration and challenge came in the form of lesson planning. Enter the Fibonacci sequence, wanting to engage my students in its magic and relevance to nature, my own wrestling match with neurographic art came to mind. What would happen if I were to introduce the Fibonacci sequence to the subjective world of neurographic art? These works reflect this ongoing exploration.

Artworks

This work evolved through my ongoing exploration of the relationship between the fibonacci sequence and neurographic art. I began with a golden rectangle cut from a map and then broken further into its ratioed squares. There is something so perfect and grounding in arranging these squares and then laying down the equally proportioned circles. As I settled into the zone of composing with the shapes and lines I was drawn by a sense of the layers of earth and geologic time. This brought to mind a feeling of vastness and depth that directed the choices of color, textures and details. Curiously, even as I found completion in this single work, I was conversely left with a sense of further depths to explore and more connections to uncover.

This work is part of my ongoing play with neurographic art and the fibonacci sequence. Using grid paper for the deconstructed golden spiral creates a visual pattern that communicates a mathematical feeling that is tempered by the flowing curves of the arcs, circles and the river of lines. The organic feel of the curves and composition influenced my choices of color referencing earth and water.