12023-01-29T20:08:36-05:00Kevin Guiney27284d5e9164c09945238f77330779abea1b73ab1982plain2023-02-18T19:17:37-05:00Matt Fu35f0bd5c27a35d08755c27237531ff1f3550dd81For this assignment, I chose to create the calligram in the form of fractal art. In particular, the main quote I was trying to embody was the one regarding light. I represent this quote, beginning with “God is the light of the heavens and the earth,” by placing the light-colored fractal image against the very dark background. It was my hope that a bright color would try and capture the idea of the passage. In turn, my decision to use fractal art to create the calligram was based on the very nature of fractals themselves: a geometric shape containing detailed structure at arbitrarily small scales. Crucially within a fractal, when one zooms in fully, the image repeats itself over and over again. While it is impossible to see here because the quality of the image can only go so far, the idea of the fractal is that once we zoom in far enough, this image would repeat itself again. There are many beautiful examples you can search for on the internet. As such, I thought that the notion of fractals themselves as infinite geometric shapes would fit well into theme of the calligram, where artists use their art to represent the ideal. Altogether, I thought that the art form itself (fractal art) and the decision of the way the fractal is constructed allowed for the light quote to be somewhat embodied. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), the image itself doesn’t look like an exact replica of the Arabic word, but it’s not very easy to force fractal art to do that.
