Seven Birds


This painting shows seven birds set in a landscape with a church in the town of Ajo, Arizona. Successively smaller birds are shown, which fit together as a sort of fractal tessellation. The tail feathers of each bird cut out the middle third of an imaginary line drawn from wing tip to wing tip. Each of the outer thirds have their middle thirds cut out the same way by a smaller generation bird. If this process is carried to infinity, what is left of this imaginary line is a set of points known as the Cantor set, or Cantor dust. The image size is 32" x 24".

Price, framed, $2400 + S&H.