Multivariable Landscapes

The Original design inspiration of this series comes from the mandatory mathematics course multivariable calculus, which involves the graph recognition part of partial differential equations. This project has gone through several iterations. The first as ink on rice paper, with blueprint free hand lines as the background, and the second iteration as a digital and spatial reimagination.

As a student majoring in mathematics, while struggling to understand graphs using partial differential equations in graphic calculators, the artist was attracted by the abstract space between patterns and thus began to imagine the concept of “multi variables” in the mathematical and spatial dimensions. The blue manuscript in the painting implies the tortured order and rigor of mathematical logic while the traditional ink brushstrokes give the graphics a chaotic sense of space. It lays the foundation for further diversified spatial imagination. Rationally, these two-dimensional schematic diagrams cannot represent the true form of PDE, but perceptually these abstract “screenshots’ ‘ , integrated with traditional Chinese ink painting techniques, can create the illusion of space with the contrast of ink.

The Urbanscape and Landscape collections were generated with a second round of iteration. With diverse content added, the collection has multilayers of scenes, backgrounds, and human and natural activities, becoming the combination of imagination of virtuality and reality.