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LAUREN MORTON

Flowers have been represented in art since the early 16th century in western Still-life painting. I challenge its traditional representation by exploring the Fibonacci, and other sequence found within flowers. The precise nature of my work correlates with the structured sequences I am representing. As science further explores nature, so must art. I explore the science behind flowers and that which we cannot see with the naked eye. In my piece 54, the hand-drawn images of a single flower rotate across rolls of paper with each line corresponding to the Fibonacci sequence. The hand drawn image is an important aspect of my work as I hold great importance to the uniqueness of the hand-made.

The aesthetic qualities of my work are one of the most important to me, I want people to enjoy looking my art. “Beauty, they say, is a no-brainer; we must have gone some way off target as a culture if we do not prefer beauty to ugliness, vulgarity and bad taste."

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