Fractal Art by Thomas Briggs

I’m not really sure why I love looking at Thomas Briggs’ fractal artwork — each one like an amazing technicolor capillary system, or a psychotropic super nova — but I do. Of course, I’m not sure what particular dialect of 39th Century Moon Man I need to speak to understand an artist’s statement like this […]

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I'm not really sure why I love looking at Thomas Briggs' fractal artwork — each one like an amazing technicolor capillary system, or a psychotropic super nova — but I do. Of course, I'm not sure what particular dialect of 39th Century Moon Man I need to speak to understand an artist's statement like this in full:

The computational realization of gesture in my practice entails the construction of of a spatial field of action. In this space various mathematical functions which represent small aspects of movement are distributed. The sum of the various functions is recorded for millions of points in space. These data are collated and translated into thousands of drawing primitives which are written into an image file for printing and archiving.

I think that translates into English as "I make my art by using math and a computer" but I'm not entirely sure.

Thomas Briggs [Artist's Site]