Mathmatica

By Tracy Paul-Rossman

36" Large Butterfly

www.pentimentometalwork.com

Mathmatica is complex and calculating. The geometric patterns, while simple in singularity combine and reveal an obsession with repetition. The word ciphers graceful unending lines that confidently define details :

The rhythmic and repetitive forms encountered 10 nature provide the inspiration for Mathmatica. The sculpture manipulates space and dimension by multiplying dividing and adding repetitive elements in a single construction. Layers of color to form the final surface appearance.

Metal sculptor Tracy Paul-Rossman has a deep appreciation for mathematics. She completed her graduate work at Arizona State University in a consortium of the university's physics, chemistry, and Earth science departments. But she is equally passionate about art and nature and the ways that mathematics are infused into and subtly expressed by both. For the last 25 years welding metal sculpture as been a focus of Tracy's life.

She loves the calculus of fabrication and her background in chemistry delights in the patina of metal surfaces. Tracy's current body of metal work includes desert flora and fauna in representational as well as in spiritual and mythical casts.

Her work has been displayed at Bits N Pieces Gallery Cottonwood, Schemer Art Center, Sonoran Art's League Hidden in the Hills, South Scottsdale Art Alliance, On The Edge Gallery, and Fountain Hills Artists Gallery

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