HIya HEY!!
OKAY!  SO current findings.... personal note:
 I have been SO concerned about giving wrong information about Fractals, or doing the WRONG thing that I have been rather.. is it catatonic? about posting findings or information.. well this is what I have found.. .. and not in a cynical way, but more in a freeing "Okay whatever" way, that.. well.. no one really gives a rat's patootie.. SO I can say whatever I want!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THAT BEING said.. don't think I'll go off and be all gross.. I will freely express my current "logs" and what I am up to in the artistic world.. for I can't think that anyone is really  reading this.....
 THUS  :  THIS will by my very own self indulgent keeping of this Fractal thing project!
I'm IN    -------
Fractals STILL RULE.
The more I research...(ie:read and dabble in what the -puter has to say) .. I see Fractal evidence everywhere.. Neurons in the brain,stuff in our lungs (SURFACE area ..surface area AMY!)
tree branches.... spirals, ferns....all evidence of a self similar /continually duplicating system. ...either to the micro or macro infinitum!   And that is just in  the natural world .. which is where it grabs my attention..
 BUT...
drop into Geometry and mathematics... add some new (1980's baby!!)  computer skills and you can plot fractal equations..........these create  those crazy beautiful spiral "tie-dye" looking patterns you might equate with ...well.. stereotypical acid trips..
 I wouldn't know... but if these patterns are in your brain when you "go there" then you can find then again in some equation mapped on a computer screen.. doesn't that make you think about interconnected-ness.?
okay.. wierd tangent... but I see these computer generated patterns evident in NATURE too.

Yup... I'm getting OUT THERE.. maybe this is why my friends are starting to look at me funny.. but I'LL BET... they might see things in a more unique way.      Like my bike ride with Cheryl and Kim... riding by ferns and spirally plants.. the conversation shifted (amazingly enough.. :)  ) to THAT And then to rocks and the invention of the wheel and the "Intelligence of Nature"...
well.. I thought it was cool.
 Okay..connections. The OTHER cool part.
 Since delving in to this ART and SCIENCE project .. "alone" (yea right).. I have met the COOLEST  sciency art people!.. and THEY All help connect me to OTHER cool sciency art people.
Here's a story.. Elizabeth made me a T-shirt  last year with the word "chaos" printed on it since I couldn't shut up about the concept (thank you Liz. )...
 Well...I was working one morning and this fella comes up.. enthralled with my shirt.. he leaves and comes back with this whole completely over my head pamphlet thesis on "chaos and the creative person"... well thank you RANDY BURGE ... "chaos man" who has put me in touch with so many amazing people (him one of them)...........This Fractal Exploration has let me down paths I never thought I would venture.. so for THAT REASON alone.. I am grateful to the Dgo Discovery Museum (Haz) for asking me to do this thing.

 oh yea.. I should get to MY BIG IDEA>..  My art part of this I have gone round in spirals about (HA!)
and I think I GOT IT> I went to dear friend Rich Stewart's studio with a seed of an idea. He's a metal guy....taught me alot... he's quite remarkable... can make ANYTHING... I got to be his right hand girl for a few projects so  I picked up a few welding techniques.... my initial  thought..a gigantic FERN... then I thought about kids playing on it and my lack of trust in any structural integrity of anything I welded...  then..as it usually goes.. I present  seed idea to Rich and thus begins a volley of ideas and cutting each other off with thoughts till the dust settles and oh my god.. the coolest idea has emerged.
A Sierpinski Triangle... 4' X4' with a Fern growing up and out.. entwining the triangles...
For me it is a huge nod to geometry ( I was never a fan as a kid)....and my new appreciation to it for is is the key stone if you will to all the things in nature.. thus a fern (Classic  Natural Fractal structure) winding up and thru that S. Triangle (Classic Geometric  Fractal structure)...
the more I think of it.. the more personal it feels.
I am delighted to create it (with the help of Metal master) and donate it to the Museum.
Well.. that's about too much for today.. I really should not wait so long betwixt posts...
BUT.. oh another thing.. I had the most wonderful weekend in Santa Fe with Mark ... I got to witness the Santa Fe Complex..........a remarkable beehive of Science and creative thinking.. yes. ART too!!!!
PLEASE check out     sfcomplex.org    or Google Santa Fe Complex.... I have been encouraged by one of their founding members to try and get the Dgo. Discovery  and them in some kind of cahoots..............HOW Cool would THAT be????
 Cheers and good nite.