Richard M. Harrington

Statement

This artwork in particular is a synthesis of math and art in a form that resembles the texture of a camouflage pattern or the fracture pattern of a schist or gneiss. The texture pattern projection is an isodipole texture that was used by Drs. Bela Julesz and Jonathan D. Victor of Weill Cornell Medical College in experiments trying to explain human perception of texture. One of my closest friends Professor Stephen Luecking who is no stranger to the Bridges audience has said this of my work, I think he expresses my intentions extremely well: "The searchlight of consciousness attempting to define the deeper patterns of the mind."

Artworks

This artwork is a synthesis of STEAM themes related to dazzle camouflage, texture perception, moire patterns, and those resembling the fracture patterns in rocks and minerals. The isodipole pattern projected onto the work is inspired by research conducted conducted into the perception of texture by Drs. Bela Julesz, and Dr. Jonathan D. Victor at Cornell Medical College in New York. In a poetic observation made by Stephen Luecking in reference to this and other works by me: "The searchlight of consciousness attempting to define the deeper patterns of the mind."