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wood prints mariano rivera wood prints jose bautista wood prints sierpinski triangle wood prints alfredo arreguin wood prints edgar martinez wood prints pythagorean wood prints fractal wood prints

drawings mariano rivera drawings jose bautista drawings sierpinski triangle drawings alfredo arreguin drawings edgar martinez drawings pythagorean drawings fractal drawings

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Much like when Columbus discovered the Americas in 1492, when Waclaw Sierpinski described iterated function systems in 1915, he was actually recognizing patterns and proportions that occur in nature and have been evident in human culture and architecture since as far back as the 13th century. These mathematical patterns that self-replicate according to some order of magnification are commonly known as fractals.
The fractal used in this work is based on the Pythagorean Theorem (a2 + b2 = c2, defining the proportions of all right triangles). The pattern, when applied to a baseball diamond, acknowledges that many of our identifying labels become arbitrary artifacts of culture, even when described by mathematics. The rules of baseball are arbitrary. Why are there not five strikes? �or four? This piece asks that question not only of baseball, but also of mathematics.
Triangles are reflected to form diamonds, folding out, and opening into baseball diamonds at the corner...

Doug Johnson as the founding editor of Cave Moon Press, started helping poets with book design, illustration and artwork ten years ago. He has been drawing since he was a teenager and was fortunate enough to encounter Alfredo Arreguin an internationally renowned painter who encouraged him to keep drawing. He has two series you have here on Fine Art of America. His more developed pieces are part of the Sombra de Arreguin series (Shadow of Arreguin) as he continues to study the style of his master, like artisans did in generations past. His other series is called "Cracked Pots" in which a single line drawing comes from a terracotta pot to combine human and organic forms. Originally started as a gift to his younger sister as a...