Kaz Maslanka

"Centered"

Digital print, 12" x 12", 2005.




Kaz Maslanka

Mathematical Poet, San Diego, CA 92123

" My first paintings from the early nineteen seventies, inspired by music, were images visualized in the music. Soon after, my synaesthesia moved toward a more empirical path by creating a visual language for aural experiences. My interest in correlating experience through language spawned my desire to study mathematics and physics. I am currently pursuing my interest in using mathematics as a language for art. I serve the concept of polyaesthetic and mathematical poetry by viewing mathematical equations and the variables within the equations as capable of providing the structure for metaphors. If one has a flexible view concerning what possibilities variables may take, then virtually anything can substitute the variable. This freedom transforms equations for uses other than scientific. This method frees equations from the boundaries of denotation and opens up a new world in the realms of connotation. I have chosen to write words or phrases in place of the variable. Mixing poetry in the structure of mathematic equations enables me to blend the aesthetics of poetry, science and mathematics. I define verbogeometry by placing words or concepts in place of analytic geometry variables, which enables one to see an aesthetic formation of concepts in space. With phrases embedded in the mathematic equations, one can construct relationships between the phrases that can bring a linguistic richness to subjects that do not normally use mathematics as a language, e.g. cultural, spiritual, etc. I infuse ideas into physics equations in ways that transform an equation into a metaphor, which helps in studying how we construct language and its cultural relationship between the physical and conceptual. I am also interested in exploring archetypes in a contemporary context by expressing my own mythology in relation to my struggle to comprehend my path, in nature's system, which directs and guides my life's moral and ethical decisions."

kaz@kazmaslanka.com
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