Shelby Fleming 9/10/17

Questions of the week:
- What does a pattern make? An image? Do patterns more easily expose flaws? 


 Side Notes of the week:
- color enhancing the context, consider reflections of color, colored lighting
- artificial vs. organic
- handmade vs. machine and the different contexts they hold. Handmade holding time, irregularities, care. Machine holds unseen time displacement, consistency, and coldness.
- human intention vs. biological

Artist of the week: 

 Rogan Brown, "To see a World in a Grain of Sand" and " Magic Circle Variation 2017"

 Rogan Brown's work explores and plays with the architecture of nature and organic growth. Using macroscopic and microscopic references he is able to identify patterns and motifs that occur in the natural world and translate them into hybrid sculptural forms, both real and surreal.

By referencing  many different scientific structures (cell, coral, fossils, shells, body, geological structures, topographical maps, etc.) in his art Brown hopes to find a bridge between art and science.

Brown also finds his material choice to be crucial. He uses hand cut pieces with scalpel knife and the pieces are delicately arranged in layers. He notes the long time based process that in a way mimicking nature's process of growth , decay and re-growth. Paper also holds a context of fragility and durability. In addition the material goes through a process of being taken from nature, transformed, then again returned to nature through Brown's translation.