Robert Fathauer
"Fractal Knots No. 1"
Digital print , 12" x 12", 2006.
"Fractal Knots No. 2"
Digital print , 12" x 12", 2006.
"Fractal Knots No. 3"
Digital print , 12" x 12", 2006.
Robert Fathauer
Small business owner, puzzle designer, and artist
Robert Fathauer makes limited-edition prints inspired by tiling and fractals. He employs mathematics in his art to express his fascination with certain aspects of our world, such as symmetry, complexity, chaos, and infinity. His artworks are created on a Macintosh computer, primarily using the commercial programs FreeHand and Photoshop. In the past, he has transferred these designs to paper by hand to create serigraphs and woodcuts. More recently, he has had digital files printed directly on photographic paper. This latter technique allows a greater level of fine detail, required by the small features of fractals.
"These fractal knots prints were created by applying overlapping-strand graphics to individual tiles in fractal tilings. The strands are designed to match up both in location and width when smaller tiles abut larger ones in edge-to-edge fashion. This results in designs that are fractal links. I.e., each design is not strictly a knot, because it consists of an infinite number of strands rather than a single strand. In the rendered versions shown here, the tiles themselves are not visible, leaving only the strands."
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