LORK Francois
I create images experimentally.
These images can be monochrome or polychrome (ochre, blue, red…) or colored with shades of a particular color.
These images can appear to be "purely" abstract but they can also make one think - sometimes in an obvious way - of flowers, insects, objects... But this figurative aspect is not what I seek the most and, in my work, this is rather anecdotal but sometimes quite amusing.
A precision which seems to me to be important: apart from the color which one can freely choose, all the images which I present on this site were obtained only by calculation.
We can perfectly well not have any particular mathematical knowledge but say to ourselves “can mathematics give that? ” and if in addition you find my images aesthetically interesting then the proof would be provided that mathematics can be a source of astonishment, daydreams, emotion and even beauty.
Having studied mathematics or more exactly tried to understand a – small – part of it, I always thought, although the idea is not new, that we could create images using:
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Mathematics (basic of course)
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A programming language,
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A calculator,
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And a screen to view the results.
To create such “mathematical” images, I set myself three more constraints:
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The first: create images only using mathematical equations or transformations,
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The second: not to use existing techniques of which I am aware, such as fractals,
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The third: not seeing the mathematical and computational nature of images and this is what constitutes the real difficulty to overcome and which is at the heart of what I do.
This third point is very important because it means, among other things, that I am not looking for I don't know what mathematical prowess or performance, such as making images of complex mathematical objects, for example. I only try to make images, if possible of a new kind and which can present, from my point of view, an artistic interest and that's all. And that's not so bad!
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Artist presented by the Art and Miss Gallery - Paris