Extrospection
Many Worlds Interpretation
Bameroong!
Albert Natian
Artist Statement
By all early indications, I was supposed to become an artist. As a kid, I always enjoyed producing things with my hands, including drawings and paintings. Soon things changed and I began to take interest in math and such. As if imperceptibly transported from those distant bygone years, I am now a professor of mathematics at a local community college. But the intensity of my interest in drawing never waned, only abided for all these years. Recently I’ve spent countless hours producing many drawings, each more daring and roving into greater extraordinary imaginations.
My drawings are often inspired by my experience as a mathematician and physicist. I am particularly interested in the discovery and formation in my drawings of extreme spatial relationships. I look forward to those days when in my mind potent germs of ideas grow thousands of expanding and intertwining tentacles that ultimately re-shape themselves into a coherent extraordinary image on paper.
Art, and production of works of art, play an important and meaningful role in the lives of many, especially those of the artists. I'd like to believe that I will help bring about new discoveries and insights in our very human experience and production of art, and thereby push asunder the existing boundaries toward a wider expanse.
Art should not be merely understood as some sort of feel-good thingy, as commonly viewed. It can be and should be used, practiced and experienced to question and challenge both our very personal as well as societal axiomatic assumptions and sense and perception of reality, and thereby ultimately change who we really are for the better (or worse). Perhaps anything that approximates the foregoing verges on being art itself.