s t r i n g s s t r i n g s series 2008 Acrylic on Canvas s t r i n g s A string is a line that moves both ways A horizon is a direction A wind brings the future A circle is a story. s t r i n g s series of paintings is an accounting of a number of possibilities linked to previous studio series work RADAR ,HORIZON, & SONAR series previously shown as part of Fractals exhibition 2008, Frances Morrison Gallery Saskatoon. *Strings series was greatly influenced by the descriptions of nature in the following source.   AN EYE FOR FRACTALS :a graphic and photographic essay Michael McGuire;Addison-Wesley Pub. Co Inc 1991. In nature there are unending entanglements, unceasing bargaining for even the smallest area. Scientists once called fractals “monsters of uncompromising irregularity”. Deterministic chaos is not incomprehensible disorder, rather, a non-linear way of visualizing chaos transformations. The complexity of the behaviour arises from the iteration of simple rules. While it need not create a visible fractal structure; it can leave tracks in the natural world, which are fractal, for example turbulent flows and their erosion patterns. Chaos has two faces. On the microscopic scale there is the butterfly effect, on the macroscopic scale there is (the appearance of) a great stability. Just where a chaotic dynamical system will end up on its attractor is exquisitely sensitive to initial conditions but that it will be pulled onto its attractor regardless of initial conditions is certain. (a work in progress, each step informing the next ) The extension of metaphor and analogy yields insight. Between a monotone and white noise lies music and the best of it is at this peak of complexity. Sensitivity to initial conditions is a basic property of chaos. These attractors are not just single points of cyclic arrays of points, but are fractals in the space of the behavioral variables of a chaotic system and the strangeness is their fractal properties. Yet artists have always been keen observers of the natural world. And fractals are there in the works of artist of all ages. Artistic consciousness of fractals is older than mathematical descriptions. Visually fractals are bold shapes that hold repetition and pattern. What distinguishes art? The answer is complexity in the sense of the amount of computation, the amount of effort it takes to describe what there is. *(my italics) Odette Nicholson 2008