"Transient Chaos #3" - Copyright by Juliet Shen and reproduced by permission of the artist.
I want to heap unsolicited praise on a friend of mine whose art career has been fascinating to follow. I met her in 1984, when she was working at Hornall-Anderson Design (now Sid Lee). She was an exceptional art director, one of the best I ever had the privilege of working with. More than that, however, she was (and is) a gifted designer and fine artist. Visit her truly wonderful (and still affordably collectible)work HERE.
The theme of her latest work is "Transient Chaos." The idea is taken from some pretty hard and math-heavy science aimed at understanding such things as the inherent unpredictability of patterns in weather and other dynamic systems. Another "system" where most of us have seen something like transient chaos in action is in the comings and goings of shadow patterns along the bottom of a swimming pool on a sunlit day - they are sometimes seemingly random, other times well ordered and semi-predictable in terms of shape and direction...yet other times they vanish completely, temporarily and in strange ways, until order somehow reasserts itself.
In retrospect, I can see the hint of this theme in her work going back for at least two decades. Here it is full-on, and absolutely fascinating to see. I cannot wait for the next images to emerge!