M&A Garden: Statue Concepts

M&A Garden Sketch: Feature Wall

M&A Garden

The birds eye view offers a broad look at the garden in its entirety.  The curving path demonstrates the golden spiral principal and curves loosely around a series of sectors.  Each sector is filled with different plant-life or other examples of nature displaying Math and Art principals.

M&A Applied Project: Public Garden

Applied Project: Math and Art Garden.

It was my desire with this project to develop upon the ideas touched on in my literature review of finding creative inspiration in the world around us. It was important to me to demonstrate in the literature review that both art and mathematics could be found in nature, and in the constructs of humanity.

To this end, I have chosen to develop a large scale public garden based on Maths and Art principals such as the Fibonacci Sequence, and Euclidean Geometry and the resulting spirals and ratio.

The performance and idea of a wonderful public garden is a collaboration between artistic and mathematical principles. The secret of a truly great garden is that it enlargens us. Participants of a Math and Art Trail may step into one to admire and enjoy it, which of course they will, but hopefully can be creatively inspired (a large focus of the Math and Art Trail process -which was touched on heavily within my literature review). Participants may come out with a new set of parameters with which to measure life.

I wanted to develop the idea that nature and human construct could work in harmony. That these two contrasting ideas could be constructed together to create beautiful works of art and application of mathematical properties.

Lastly I wanted to approach the idea that finding inspiration in Math and Art was easy if one knew how to apply themselves to looking for it. I hope that this place could hypothetically provide this inspiration, and aid anyone who was to stumble upon it in their journey to find their muse in the wonders of Art and Mathematics.

Literature Review

What strategies can be identified in effective Math and Art Trail?

What other approaches are effective for incorporating Math and Art into a creative practice for a specific audience?