Dóra Maurer

ARTWORK

painting

experiment / fractals / perception

1988 - 1995

If we look at art as a complex system of learning, we cannot avoid employing such methods as enlargement, deceleration, separation of certain segments, the repetition of these segments, classification, or logical and calculated investigation. The accentuation and enlargement over the years of various aspects of my earlier Displacements diagrams were based on this curious, orientative observation and the fortifying deceleration of elusive things, (...). The picture series was based on a small part of the 46th step in the Displacement Series. At every step, it expands tenfold in a way that only a fragment of the selected diagram enlarges further. The eight-coloured, 3 mm wide lines (which cover the surfaces and thus mark the constellations), as constituents, do not become thicker, but multiply. As a result, the enlargement of the diagram creates new patterns in each picture, but the feeling of enlargement, which is commonly present during a projection, does not occur. (D.M.)

The Butterfly Effect - Current Coordinates