Description
isa Catto is a wonderful painter who makes beautiful images primarily with watercolors. Her colors are delicious and her patterns are rich, playful and smart. She?s started a line of clothing and accessories and has donated a beautiful scarf to our auction. This piece is inspired by Pi and the pattern explores the repetitions and patterns of the number itself.
Here?s what Isa says about it on her website:
?When our son brought home his interest in irrational numbers and mathematical theorems, his excitement was contagious. His knowledge far outstrips mine, but I shared his fascination with Pi as a middle schooler. It is really fun to think of numbers unfurling in space, marching out beyond imagination and light. I also rediscovered e or Euler?s number while reading Margot Lee Shetterly?s Hidden Figures. In a scene in the celebrated movie, the protagonist Katherine Johnson used Euler?s number to calculate the trajectory of John Glenn?s space capsule on a blackboard. That moment inspired me to plot the numbers of e using a color algorithm ? my own take on a color trajectory. I wanted to engage numbers in a new way and found there was an architecture, a different kind of reveal as I painted row after row of squares that looked like chiclets. I found cadence in irrationality and a new correspondence with color.?
Scarf is 15?x54?, organza printed with ecologically sensitive inks. Made in America.
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