Sometimes scientific discoveries are born out of madness. Take Jackson Pollock's famous fractal paintings for instance. It doesn't seem too brilliant at first glance, but the scientific community has been studying and learning from them. He may not have been a physicist or mathematician himself, but he did help us in understanding our world and the visual beauty that can be found in it.
Check out the below 2 articles about how Jackson Pollock's work has been studied.
The poem below is written from the perspective of the canvas.
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| Jackson Pollock |
The easel is a stand
That holds me, a
canvas
A canvas as white as
a winter storm
A blizzard
I've heard the
stories
Of canvases
transformed
Into masterpieces
Into masterpieces
Their painter’s brilliant strokes
Brush in hand
They stare and stare and stare
They stare and stare and stare
Till they could see
what their canvas could be
Their brush a tool of precision
Every meticulous
stroke
Every dip and every
dab
Until the canvas
became perfection
Today I meet my
master
Jackson Pollock
He throws my easel in
the trash
He gently sets me on the ground
Amid buckets of paint
And brushes strewn
about
I’m perplexed
His brush would never
touch me
Nor would his hand
He paced around me
Circling around and
around and around
His brush soaked with
paint
Drip, drip, drip as
he circled me
He’d grab another
brush
Sopped in paint he’d
fling it across me
Cigarettes and booze
Maybe they were clues
To his genius
I thought to myself
Is this the work of a
master,
Or a crazy person?
Perhaps both.
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