I’m gonna have to drop some more apology bombs on the crew over at It’s Nice that for ganking one of their posted artists, but Oliver Jeffers was just too good to pass up. He combines two of my favorite things — painting and math — together into works that feel similar to Magritte even though they don’t quite cross that line into out-and-out surrealism. At least, I don’t see them that way. And of course if you’ve got the science/math background to understand what the equations in some of his paintings are, it adds a new level of depth to each piece. Even without knowing the equations each piece still manages to demonstrate how beautiful the math looks. That’s one of the reasons I ever bothered to learn it in the first place; all the numbers and symbols just flow together so nicely. Well, that and I get really awestruck when I see the underpinnings of the world described in symbols. I am awestruck like 90% of the day though, so maybe that’s not such a big thing.
Oliver Jeffers found via It’s Nice that
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