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Wednesday, April 26, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Science of
expressionist painting
On May 10, an art and sci-
ence perspective on Fractal
Expressionism will be pre-
sented at Pine Meadow
Village Clubhouse by world-
renowned Professor Richard
Taylor. The event is presented
by the University of Oregon
Alumni Association and Duck
Sisters.
Professor Taylor will
share how science finally
explained the meaning of
Jackson Pollock’s “infamous
swirls of paint” through
computer analysis of the pat-
terns. Science found that the
paintings are fractal, reoccur-
ring patterns over finer and
finer magnifications, build-
ing up shapes “of immense
complexity.”
Patterns in nature are
often fractal, such as in light-
ning, clouds, mountains
and trees. These fractal pat-
terns are described as “the
fingerprints of nature.” For
Professor Taylor, this meant
that Pollock “distilled the very
essence of natural scenery and
expressed it on canvas with an
unmatched directness.”
In the lecture, Taylor will
share the implications of
fractal expressionism in art,
science, nature and human
behavior. He will also explain
how viewing Pollock paint-
ings can reduce the observer’s
physiological stress levels by
as much as 60 percent.
Taylor is determined to
bring collaboration of arts
and sciences as director of the
Materials Science Institute
and professor of physics,
psychology and art at the
University of Oregon.
For this Sisters lecture,
Professor Taylor will use
Jackson Pollock paintings as
the model to help a viewer
understand how we view pat-
terns. In his research, he and
his students have found that
over the years of producing
art, Pollock increased com-
plexity deliberately “to reduce
the imagery seen in his earlier
work.”
Taylor’s interest in Jackson
Pollock paintings began in his
youth and has remained a life-
long interest.
“I use my interests in frac-
tals to encourage collabora-
tion between the arts and sci-
ences and to promote aware-
ness of science,” Taylor says.
He has been featured in
several documentaries and the
major scientific publications,
including Scientific American,
and The New York Times and
London Times. He has spoken
to the Nobel Foundation and
the Guggenheim Museum,
representations of his eclectic
diversity in combining art and
science.
“Bioinspiration is my main
focus,” says the professor,
exploring the favorable prop-
erties that make fractals so
prevalent in nature and apply-
ing them to artificial systems.
This lecture is open to the
public with limited seating. To
register, visit uoalumni.com/
fractalexpressionism. There is
no charge for the event, which
will open at 11:30 a.m. for the
noon presentation.
Playwrights on hand for premieres
W h e n “ N o w Yo u ’ r e
Ta l k i n g 2 0 1 7 ” o p e n s
Thursday night at The Belfry,
three dramatists will be in
the audience anticipating the
premiere performances of
their newest plays.
Playwright Albi Gorn
is coming to Sisters from
his home in Hastings on
Hudson, New York, for the
world premiere of his latest
play, “Missing,” a poignant
story of a young woman, a
Vietnam veteran, and the ice
cream shop where they first
met in 1980. Gorn’s plays
have won numerous play-
writing contests and have
been produced throughout
the United States, England
and Mexico.
Cricket Daniel, mainstay
of the 2nd Street Theater in
Bend, is bringing her lat-
est play, “A Baby Baby,” to
The Belfry for its world pre-
miere. Daniel has an exten-
sive background in stand-
up, theater and improv, and
“A Baby Baby” reflects her
lively take on a 30-some-
thing couple’s inevitable talk
about their future.
Larry Anderson of Sisters
loves to see and write from
the odd angles, and the world
Strangers” by Jim Gordon;
and “Verbatim,” also by Albi
Gorn.
The theatrical commu-
nity of Sisters has also pro-
vided directors for each of
the plays: Marla Manning,
who is also the producer
for the show; Joan Upshaw,
Lisa Fetrow, and Michelle
Pwddyr. Actors include Evan
Leiser, Raechel Gilland,
C h r i s t i a n Tr a s k , M i a
Burton, Melinda Jahn, Ann
Nora Kruger, Deri Frazee,
Melodin Trammel, Vicki
Kouns, Nancy Harris, Jim
Hammond, Rhonda Schantz,
Gracie Conant, Tyler Santos,
Shawn O’Hern, Michelle P.
Ehr, Dyut Fetrow, and Larry
Lloyd.
“Now You’re Talking
2017” is the second major
production of Silent Echo
Theater Company, which
incorporated in Sisters as a
nonprofit community theater
in July 2016, following the
well-received one-act plays
in “Now You’re Talking
2016.” More information
can be found at www.silent
echotheatercompany.org.
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