A. G. O. G. Canberra. Artist's statement Materials, size, and form. There are presently two larger works on a scale of interior architecture, which require a minimum ceiling height of 4 metres to display, and doors the size of an average loading dock for entry. Fractal geometry, in its integral connection with Chaos Theory, gives us both an abstract mathematical description, and a visual image which can easily symbolise evolution and mutation. What scientists have found is a set of plausible working hypotheses, for which there is abundant but not totally conclusive evidence.
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.