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Musicians often describe the sensation of reading sheet music and "hearing" the notes play in their heads. Similarly, abstract concepts in mathematics can register a euphoric visual sensation. This is the world I explore while painting.

As a mathematician and an artist, I work in the area in which those two subjects meet, showing viewers, on canvas, what the process of thinking about math looks like to me. By allowing the paintings to operate like a chalkboard in my studio, gradually filling up with abstract concepts, I translate the intricate world of mathematical relationships into something everyone can see. Translating abstract scientific ideas into artistic work has existed since Leonardo da Vinci translated abstract concepts into beautiful drawings that maintained their scientific accuracy. I see a similar world to explore in mathematics and invite the viewer to consider this visual component of abstract ideas in my paintings.

For example, a cycloid is a geometric curve formed by a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls along a straight line. The Cycloids paintings developed from my love of curvilinear coordinates, and were inspired by Galileo GalileiÕs study of the cycloid in 1599.