MICHAEL WHITTLE
Drawing | 2017
The discovery of Lorenz knots provided a surprising connection between two very different fields of study: chaos theory, with its strange attractors, and knot theory, which is an attempt to analyze and classify all possible ‘closed knots’. Lorenz found that his elegant, 2-winged orbital systems were extremely sensitive to initial conditions, a phenomenon now known as deterministic chaos or the ‘butterfly effect’. From order arises chaos, and two of these intricate Lorenz knots, with identical starting conditions but slightly different outcomes, are drawn here superimposed, as fragile, intertwining structures.
Size
32 x 40 inches - Framed
Materials
Ink, pencil and watercolour on paper
Authenticity
Hand signed by the artist
Superimposed Lorenz Knots
MICHAEL WHITTLE
Drawing | 2017
The discovery of Lorenz knots provided a surprising connection between two very different fields of study: chaos theory, with its strange attractors, and knot theory, which is an attempt to analyze and classify all possible ‘closed knots’. Lorenz found that his elegant, 2-winged orbital systems were extremely sensitive to initial conditions, a phenomenon now known as deterministic chaos or the ‘butterfly effect’. From order arises chaos, and two of these intricate Lorenz knots, with identical starting conditions but slightly different outcomes, are drawn here superimposed, as fragile, intertwining structures.
Size
32 x 40 inches - Framed
Materials
Ink, pencil and watercolour on paper
Authenticity
Hand signed by the artist
