Fractal mathematics describe that evolutionary process. This is where several shapes or patterns within the larger whole are found to repeat themselves on smaller and smaller scales, each time mutating slightly so that the form is similar but not quite the same. This tendency is also found in the physical universe, for example, in the spiral of a galaxy such as the Milky Way, light years across in size, down to an ammonite or a nautilus shell on a plysical scale that we perceive with our senses, and down again to the spirals of DNA,, chlorophyll and carbon chains at molecular levels and beyond. The actual spirals of fractals are mathematically identical to many found that this is not co-incidence which play a role in the direction and forms of evolution. In my work I use fractals because of both their aesthetic and symbolic qualities.
Fractals provide one means of visualising our contemporary world view.
Only computers have the power to process the vast number of algorithms necessary to generate an image in fractal geometry. It could take one human 300 years without eating showering or sleeping, to calculate one fractal image. Fractals invoke in the viewer a sort of awe and stillness similar to that felt in the presence of a mountainous or coastal landscape,or ar the forms of galaxies or molecules seen with advanced technology. One of the artist's aims is to induce this feeling in the gallery viewer by the use of fractal form in mandalas and other forms of installation. There is a strong theoretical base in the work for those who enjoy mental speculation.