I wish I could do that; explain how to break the barrier between art and math. But it requires a paradigm shift. A whole new way of thinking of the world. When I make art, I disappear, and there is nothing, not even space. But it’s a beautiful nothing where everything is connected and everything flows out to infinity in a wonderful silence.
In my other life, I studied Mechanical Engineering. My main focus of study was mathematics. Using mathematics to explain the world, I continued my education by artistically defining the evolution of the rocky mountains with a series of mathematical formulas. With the use of a computer and coding, the formulas output a series of illustrations. Each one depicts the slow evolution of the beautiful faults and folds characteristic of the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
There is art in mathematics and mathematics in art. One can not exist without the other. Separating education into different subjects is really a disservice to all of us. At such an early age, we are trained to separate disciplines into different categories and we lose the ability of seeing the whole picture. We become incapable of looking at the world without boundaries. We can no longer see and understand that we are all connected.
This fall, I get to lead children into a world of no boundaries; where there is no difference between math and art, I get to show them that the world is connected and that everything influences everything else. Open their eyes to a new way of thinking. Hoping that this new way of thinking will nudge each child into the direction they are meant to travel.