Butterfly Primes; ~metamorphosis~
     
I have had a fascination with the visual patterns that numbers often make
in various scenarios. In the process of looking at that most famous of
classical Newtonian physics laws ... the panoramic "Inverse Square Law"
... in its most basic presentation, that is, in a simple multiplication table in
which the simple squaring of similar sequential numbers from each axis
generates the central diagonal line, the diagonal line of squares ... I became
curious as to how those mysteriously alluring and uncontrollable prime
numbers might fit in. Surely, their squares, too, had some untold secrets.

Finding that the differences in the squares of any and all primes was always
a multiple of 24 was enough to generate some sleepless nights. Digging
deeper and finding that specific sets of complementary 24 multiples acted to
actually shepherd the prime squares along the diagonal squares line was
just short of unbelievable. Surely, I was wrong. Many hours over many
weeks of testing, though, seemed to confirm that I had found a pattern for
the primes. Not only that, but the pattern, when all the accompanying 24
multiples were included, presented as that lovely of all living forms, flitting
here and there ... the butterfly. The "Butterfly Primes" were born.

Now, while the concept in the formation of the "Butterfly Primes" pattern
is not overly technical from a descriptive point of view, it really did not
answer the question that the pattern begs ... why 24, and what does 24
have to do with the primes on a numerical level?

It was while I was in the middle of the little Q-&-A dialog about prejudicial
numbers, and our attitudes and expectations about them, that this very
question came to press on me in a relentless fashion. What would the
difference in the squares of all numbers, (specifically the odds), divided by
24 tell us? What followed was "The Butterfly Prime Directive ...
~metamorphosis". The answer to the number prejudices of the prime was
to see how all the numbers played out-- given the same and equal
opportunity--to express their own private uniqueness. Indeed, what is
found was as old as the hills ... as old as the numbers themselves:
Numbers don't lie. They don't cheat and they don't even call others names.
People do.

 

 
Education

1970- BS General Science, Oregon State University
1972- MS Cell Biology-incomplete, OSU
1973- MT(ASCP) Medical Technology, Good Samaritan Hospital & Medical Center, Portland, OR
1973- 1978- Medical Research Specialist, Good Samaritan Hospital & Medical Center, Portland, OR

Solo Exhibitions

2005- Lara Sydney Framing Gallery, Portland, OR
2001- Lara Sydney Framing Gallery, Portland, OR
1997- Montage Gallery, Portland, OR
1996- American Institute of Architects/ Portland Chapter, Portland, OR
1996- Montage Gallery, Portland, OR
1995- Montage Gallery, Portland, OR
1992- Zero Square Gallery, Portland, OR
1989- Oregon Graduate Center, Hillsboro, OR
1989- Portland Community College, Rock Creek, OR
1988- Beaverton City Hall, Beaverton, OR
1987- Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham, OR
1987- Beaverton City Hall, Beaverton, OR
1987- Beaverton Chamber of Commerce, Beaverton, OR

Rhizome ArtBase

2006-"Butterfly Primes"
2004-"Your sFace or Mine?"
2003-"Naughty Physics (a.k.a. The LUFE Matrix)
2002-"HeyUfunknwithmyDNA?"
2001-"RealSurReal ... aClone, 2001"

Group Exhibitions (select, nonprofit org.)

2007- 2006[10th] Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of
           Photography, Feb 24-Mar4, 2007
2007- "Allegories of the Genome", Vancouver, BC, Canada-tba
2006- 10th Int'l Conference on Information Visualization (IV06), July 4-7,
           University of London, London, England, DART gallery
2006- Int'l Conference Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGIV06),
           July 25-28, Sydney, Australia, DART gallery
2006- "ARTIFICIAL A.GENDER? new media online exhibition:tba
2004- Eurographics 2004, Art Show "Art and Science", Grenoble, France 30 Aug - 3 September, 2004
2004- Rhizome ArtBase, http://rhizome.org, "Your sFace or Mine?", NY, NY
2004- "21 Years of Studios", Cathedral Park Place (invitational), Portland, OR
2003- Rhizome ArtBase, http://rhizome.org, "naughty physics (a.k.a. The LUFE Matrix)", NY, NY
2002- Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition 2002, City of Bellevue, WA
2002- Rhizome ArtBase, http://rhizome.org, "Hey! U funk'n with my DNA?", New York, NY
2002- Net.Art, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, http://www.irishmuseumofmodernart.com
2002- 20th Annual Visual Arts Showcase 2002, Beaverton Arts Commission, Beaverton, OR
2001- Net_Working, net.art, CHArt conference and Watershed Digital Cafe, Bristol, UK
          www.watershed.co.uk/Net_Working
2001- FILE_2001 (Electronic Language International Festival), net.art, Museu da Imagem e do Som,
          São Paulo, Brazil, August 7th-September 2nd, 2001. Online all year at: http://www.file.org.br
2001- Rhizome ArtBase, http://rhizome.org, "RealSurReal ... aClone, 2001", New York, NY
2000- PICA, "Open Walls" (unjuried), Portland, OR
1995- Maude Kerns Art Center, "5th Sculpture Biennial", Eugene, OR
1995- Maude Kerns Art Center, Women’s Art Triennial, Eugene, OR
1993- Maude Kerns Art Center, "The Silent Child, Art as Healing", Eugene, OR
1992- Kinsey Gallery, Seattle University, Seattle, WA
1991- A.I.R. Gallery, "Choice"(unjuried), New York, NY
1989- Maude Kerns Art Center, "Icons and Idols, A Celebration of Ceremony", Eugene, OR
1989- Justice Center Sidewalk Gallery, Portland, OR
1988- Newport Visual Arts Center, "Nuclear Visions", OCCA, Newport, OR
1986- Northwest Artist’s Workshop, "On the Job", Portland, OR
1985- Germanow Art Gallery, "Current Visions ‘85", JCC, Rochester, NY
1983- Northwest Artist’s Workshop, "Description/ Portrayal" (Invitational), Portland, OR
1983- Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, "The Figure: New Form, New Function", Gatlinburg, TN
1983- "1st Annual Sherbrooke Int’l Painting Salon", Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
1981- PCVA, "Public Hanging" (unjuried), Portland, OR
1978- Northwest Artist’s Workshop, "Salon de Refuses" (unjuried), Portland, OR

Past solo show theme titles (Paintings and sculpture):

"The E-P Series: digital-encaustic with scratchboard", 2001
"Dance Number Appendage: A Surrealistic Look At Patterns in Dance and Numbers", 1997
"Lucy:Contemporary Reflections on Paleonathropologic Findings",1996
"Line.Surface.Volume",1996
"A Search for the Multicultural Mythology of Our Times", 1991

Publication/Presentation:

"The Geometry of Music, Art and Structure ... linking the esthetics of Art and Science" at the 8th ICECGDG (International Conference on Engineering Design Graphics and Descriptive Geometry, sponsored by the International Society for Geometry and Graphics, the Japan Society for Graphic Science, and the Engineering Design Graphics Division of the American Society for Engineering Education; hosted by the College of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin).1998.
Published in the Proceedings of the 8th ICECGDG, Vol. 2, pg 378, ISGG, Tokyo, Japan, 1998