Reality and Imagination #1 (2023) Digital Arts by Elkement (Elke Stangl)

Fine art paper, 8x12 in
  • This work is an "Open Edition" Digital Arts, Giclée Print / Digital Print
  • Dimensions Several sizes available
  • Several supports available (Fine art paper, Metal Print, Canvas Print)
  • Framing Framing available (Floating Frame + Under Glass, Frame + Under Acrylic Glass)
  • Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
  • Categories Abstract Science
Real and imaginary part of the complex function 1/z, envisaged as cityscape or space station. Celebrating the beauty of a seemingly simple function! The contour lines of these two functions are perfect circles – rings which are aligned along the circumference. Stacking these rings gives rise to tower-like structures. Gold is the color of reality; Blue [...]
Real and imaginary part of the complex function 1/z, envisaged as cityscape or space station. Celebrating the beauty of a seemingly simple function!

The contour lines of these two functions are perfect circles – rings which are aligned along the circumference. Stacking these rings gives rise to tower-like structures. Gold is the color of reality; Blue is the color of imagination. The asymmetric towers lean on each other: they meet in the vertical axis, and they can be rotated into each other.

In a series of images, these virtual structures are shown from different viewing angles.

Created with custom JavaScript code using the framework threejs, no AI.

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Cutting through each other.
Meeting in the center,
leaning on each other.
Chasing each other.

Bells or towers.
Tubes or wires.

Despair and hope.
Fragility and strength.
Imagination and reality.

Related themes

PhysicsMathematicsScienceComplex Function.Real

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elkement is crafting virtual sculptures with code (no AI!) and with pencils - structures based on mathematical functions. Her art is based on and inspired by physics, engineering, and tech. Inspired by the aesthetics [...]

elkement is crafting virtual sculptures with code (no AI!) and with pencils - structures based on mathematical functions. Her art is based on and inspired by physics, engineering, and tech. Inspired by the aesthetics of vintage patent drawings and by Sir Roger Penrose’s handcrafted sketches, elkement is searching for the nexus of science and art.

elkement enjoys spotting the uncanny in the allegedly simple and mundane. Having created virtual three-dimensional structures with code, she is always searching for an unusual perspective to challenge preconceived notions. She often juxtaposes her visual art with her Found Poetry when she presents her art (at elkement.art).

Recurring motifs in elkement's digital art are diffraction patterns. Since early childhood, elkement had been fascinated by the pure spectral colors of the rainbow and by the physics underlying their creation. Forming structures from diffraction patterns that are both based on exact math and that resemble the patterns you actually see encapsulates the beauty of the phenomena as everybody can experience them, as well as the beauty of the underlying math. 

elkement is a physicist by training who fondly remembers her high school classes in descriptive geometry and fine art.

(In case you read this in a language other than English, it is an automated translation.)

This gallery profile was in March 2022. Profits for artworks created in 2022 go to Ukraine aid - to 'Cards for Ukraine' - a small, transparent organization helping Ukrainian refugees in Austria. 

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