Artists

Clayton Shonkwiler

Associate Professor of Mathematics

Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University

Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

clay@shonkwiler.org

shonkwiler.org

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Statement

I am committed to using geometry to understand the world.

Artworks

Image for entry 'Grid'

Grid

23.0 x 23.0 cm

Ink on paper

2026

The Riemann mapping theorem guarantees that every simply connected region in the plane is conformally equivalent to the unit disk. Conformally mapping a grid inside a square to the disk gives the part of this image inside the unit circle; the rest comes from inverting this deformed grid in the unit circle.