Artists
Suman Vaze
Teacher of Mathematics
King George V School, ESF
Hong Kong
Statement
My artmaking practice draws on my experience as a teacher of Mathematics. I use mixed media to make paintings. I have two broad ways of working: One in which I create artwork systematically by incrementally changing a parameter. This helps me understand the underlying patterns as they evolve visually. I find that this process calms and stills my mind. Memories of Colour, Time Series and Moments of Serenity: Eight are examples of this method of working. The other artworks I create try to describe theorems, puzzles or mathematical curiosities in visually succinct ways
Artworks
Moments of Serenity: Eight (Torrence)
29.7 x 21.0 cm
water colour, pencil, wax crayon, on watercolor paper
2025
Moments of Serenity: Eight documents the 286 possible arrangements of eight non-intersecting loops. They are painted on separate sheets of paper and hung like prayer flags from a string. The pieces are installed in parallel rows or in a radial arrangement in a site-specific installation. The total length is around 48m. At the Bridges Eindhoven 2025 Exhibition, the single 285th arrangement is shown.
My initial work was one arrangement short of the complete set of 286. It was because of Bruce Torrence that I checked and found the missing arrangement. The piece in this exhibition titled "Torrence" is that missing arrangement.