Artist Statement

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Beyond the intrinsic beauty to be found in the symmetries, order, and harmonies of topological structures constructed with geometric components, my art and practice have been defined by two driving forces. 

1. to create art of both aesthetic and mathematical interest and 

2. to optimize my creativity. 

To achieve the first goal, I've incorporated the palate of the renaissance masters like Raphael, Michelangelo, and Leonardo in order to imbue my art with radiant and luminous beauty. Thus, you will find in my graphic art ruby reds, sapphire blues, emerald greens, and golden yellows. 

For mathematicians, there may be some value in the construction of topological structures such as knots, links, braids, and weaves with geometric components including Points, lines, polygons, and polyhedra.

To attain the second goal, I developed a system that combines three creative methods into a singular methodology that I call STEAM CAD for conceptual aided design. Thus, I adopted structuralism to enhance the diversity of my art since it has a Lego-like quality wherein there are infinite variety of structures that can be created from a finite set of building blocks. In practice, I use points (spheres), lines (cylinders), polygons (tiles), and polyhedra as components for my constructed sculptures. 

To make my creativity efficient, I have adopted design tables from Leonardo da Vinci who used them to generate ideas for his famous caricatures. I repurpose them to combine geometric components with topological structures to exhaustively produce the ideas that inspire my art. 

In order to optimize my productivity, I nest the tables in a hierarchy modeled on academia with departments, disciplines, categories of objects that each discipline studies and then the objects in each of those categories. In this way, I can amplify the ideas I generate exponentially from one level to the next as the outputs from one level become the inputs from the next level below it. 

Thus, my art and practice are the living embodiment of structural design, systems thinking, and aesthetic judgment, inviting viewers to see geometric topology not as the study of a fixed stock of objects but as a generative system where components and structures are combined to produce new composites.