TAYLOR, ANGUS FRACTAL HEAD CAST BRONZE, STAINLESS STEEL AND PATINA
pieter mathews
IN AFRICA, A LARGE PART OF THE GEOMETRY UTILIZED IN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN IS BASED ON FRACTALS – A SELF-SIMILAR GEOMETRY THAT VARIES IN SCALE. THIS SEEMED AN APT METAPHOR FOR CONVEYING THE EXPANSION OF A SINGULAR CONCEPT OF SUBSTANCE AS A TYPE OF MEME. BUT ALSO IN CONTRAST TO THIS, WHEN READ IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, THE FRACTALS BECOME A METAPHOR FOR THE DIMINISHING OF UNDERSTANDING, THINGS WE ONCE HELD DEARLY AND UNDERSTOOD WHICH WE HAVE FORGOTTEN.
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