When the Butterfly Gates Open
Title
When the Butterfly Gates Open
Description
'This scene evokes Neal Stephenson’s novel Anathem, which describes isolated communities of mathematicians living apart from society. The gates of these monasteries open, depending on the community, every year, ten years, hundred years, or, for an enigmatic few, every thousand years.Before the virtual lighting altered them, the colors of both patterns, gates and globe, were the same, drawn from a photograph (and negative) of a medallion of blue Morpho butterfly wings that I inherited from an ancestor. The pattern on the gates shows color-reversing wallpaper symmetry; the pattern on the floating globe is icosahedral.'
Creator
Farris, Frank A.
Is Part Of
Professional Art Collection
Medium
Digital print on aluminum
Extent
20x16 in
Identifier
PUA_ART_2016_8_10
Rights
In Copyright
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Format
photograph
Type
Still Image