ARCLIGHT

acrylic painting
14 x 22.65 inches

gessoed fabric on aluminum

august 19, 2010

new art by Christopher Pronchik

The string of numbers visible to the right, upper center are the first 10 digits of the Fibonacci sequence. This sequence (with fewer elements) appears a second time, upside down, but largely obscured. The dimensions of the piece roughly conform to the golden ratio, PHI (1.618...). The white logarithmic spiral is an approximate representation of a mathematical shape called the Golden Spiral.

Rather than add additional explanation for these bits of mathematics - which to be honest, are fading from my own abilities to understand and explain - I direct you to the following wikipedia article. The article provides some nice description but also more than a dose of the arcane mathematics that underlie it (and which may remove all beauty from your consideration of the terms).

God willing (meaning, my focus, maintenance of interest, and other factors), this is a prototype for a series of pieces that together will comprise an n x n matrix (n TBD) of meta-elements, currently envisioned and given the working title, "The Rutgers Collective".

(C) 2010 Christopher Pronchik. All rights reserved. No copies, whether whole, partial or digitally manipulated may be used without written permission of this artist.