Tapestries in Space 2.0 Thesis Exhibition
Solving the nBody Problem with Tapestry Objects in Space
by Sharon Hogg
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About the Book
The nBody problem has survived 300 years of mathematical onslaught, “kindling and witnessing the beginnings of calculus, of qualitative methods, of relativity, of chaos.” This says mathematician Florin Diacu.
Cosmic, local, and in an infinite-return homoclinic orbit, “the sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.” This says Samuel Beckett’s opening line from his novel Murphy. Acknowledging the nothing new, Beckett then proceeds to tell his new and unique story anyway. He affirms the notion of a reality that is built upon an infinite number of very similar, yet still mutually exclusive phenomena. Like the sunrise, the nBody problem is nothing new; it concerns the eternal dance of the celestial spheres.
And so, I focus my Tapestries in Space on grappling with the nBody problem. A medieval heretic, an enlightenment philosopher, a Nordic king, a Chinese sophomore, English and Chinese novelists and more than a few mathematicians have already thrown their hats in the ring. And every one of them has indeed solved the nBody problem. Here, I elbow my way in, firmly placing myself and my material based tapestry installation into the crowded circle of solvers of the nBody problem.
This project is about how an installation of tapestry in three-dimensional space might deliver its solution through material exploration.
Cosmic, local, and in an infinite-return homoclinic orbit, “the sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.” This says Samuel Beckett’s opening line from his novel Murphy. Acknowledging the nothing new, Beckett then proceeds to tell his new and unique story anyway. He affirms the notion of a reality that is built upon an infinite number of very similar, yet still mutually exclusive phenomena. Like the sunrise, the nBody problem is nothing new; it concerns the eternal dance of the celestial spheres.
And so, I focus my Tapestries in Space on grappling with the nBody problem. A medieval heretic, an enlightenment philosopher, a Nordic king, a Chinese sophomore, English and Chinese novelists and more than a few mathematicians have already thrown their hats in the ring. And every one of them has indeed solved the nBody problem. Here, I elbow my way in, firmly placing myself and my material based tapestry installation into the crowded circle of solvers of the nBody problem.
This project is about how an installation of tapestry in three-dimensional space might deliver its solution through material exploration.
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Sharon Hogg
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Sharon Hogg is a visual artist working in Calgary Alberta and Lombardy Ontario, Canada. She holds a Bachelors of Fine Art and a Masters of Fine Art from the Alberta College of Art and Design. Where humans intersect with unseen natural forces, she imagines what lies behind or beneath the surface. More than seeing, she wants to feel the backstory, the understory, the glue that holds it all together. Her work seeks to bring that underlying level of awareness closer to the visible and the touchable. The Sublime, New Materialism and the Vorticists are influences.