After some updating, which is an ongoing project, I'm happy to announce that there is a new section of art visible on my Website at pyracantha.com. This features my newer work in mathematical and space abstraction. Mathematical curves such as those in conic sections and exponential graphs give me endless ideas for abstract art. And physics concepts, for an artist, turn into bright-colored fantasies which would never occur (or would be dismissed as silly, superficial, and irrelevant) to a physicist. I try to be careful not to disrespect either math and physics by making it into trivial, pretty, or cute decorative designs. All these pictures come from things I have worked out in my math and physics with real calculations, though I don't calculate anything with numbers and equations while designing the images. Design elements include conic sections, intersecting lines, inequalities, and exponents. If I were a scientist, I'd specify the colors for the artwork in nanometers or RGB number sets, but I don't go that far. What I do want to convey, by using high contrast, bright colors, and starry black backgrounds, is the bold, heroic quality of science, which dares to investigate the universe and find order in the world.

You are invited to visit my new gallery section at Abstract Geometric Spaces.

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