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Sculpture, Metal on Stainless Steel
Size: 35.4 W x 98 H x 17.7 D in
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‘fractal mentality’ is a collective name I have given to sculptures works which acknowledge the digitization of humanity. I attempt to crossbreed a cloned version of computer-graphic solids (a potentially cold and unemotional medium) with something quite the opposite, very humane, arcane, and instinctive. Representing the way that machines understand solids, these investigations strive to assert an integrity which is inherent in all things around us, attempting to draw into dialogue the distinction between that which can be produced by mathematics and that which can found in nature and in the soul. fractal mentality utilises a pseudo-mathematical technique to produce objects which resemble ‘wire-frame’ images, the main-stay of computer three-dimensional drawing programs and virtual reality to relate to the steady slide of the way we view ourselves into the realm of computers. Articulation of form within the numerical sphere is restricted to the shortest path between two points and thus a curve, the basic building block of form in nature, becomes a series of tiny straight lines and soft rounded shapes become crystallised forms and planes, beautiful also in their own way. As the economic necessity to perform the many basic functions of living with the aid of computers becomes more apparent, so the way that we interpret the world around us is obliged to conform to a common language. The application of systematic thinking is the highway that leads to the future, but the economic necessity of effective information-storage is dictating a series of progressively narrowing portals through which we receive the world.
2008
Metal on Stainless Steel
One-of-a-kind Artwork
35.4 W x 98 H x 17.7 D in
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my name is Toby Short, I undertake commissioned public art, design furniture and create figurative sculptures. I am interested in the space in-between things. In that which defies our immediate perception. My work concerns the discovery of something integral to us all but which is hard to grasp. I am particularly fascinated in the way we view the world via the machines we have created, In the way that computers portray life. The development of this idea I call ‘fractal mentality’. ‘fractal mentality’ can be seen in some sculptures below.
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