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About these Images: Piyush Shah

These images are neither photographs nor paintings. They have been generated on a computer without using a pressure pen, tablet or mouse.

The principle behind these images comes from the exploration of fractals. The word ‘fractal’ comes from the Latin word fractus, meaning broken.

In science and mathematics, the study of any system yields entropy. In a system, entropy increases with increasing complexity. In classical science, Chaos was left out as noise. Structures were identified and broad principles of mechanics were drawn leaving the unknown (noise) at decimal points of observation. When confronted with micro-elements dancing away in unpredictable behavior, Einstein had said, “God doesn’t play dice.”

Fractals are a mathematical exploration of chaos prevailing in any system. Visual imagery, bounded in a rectangle, acquires order through the observer (creator and perceiver). Art is an exploration of order and chaos entangled with each other.

For me, the motivating force is to see what lies beyond what I know. Image making is defined by our knowledge and intuition. Rectangular boundaries are like Euclidian geometry – refined, calculable and two dimensional. Fractals are like traveling through a maze of infinite dimensions