Through my studies of mathematics, I have had the opportunity to be exposed to the wondrous beauty of fractal geometry. Fractals at their core are based on the concept of recursion: Take a simple object, alter it in some way, and then repeat that alteration infinitely many times. This often gives rise to a property called "self-similarity" where any one piece of the fractal is in fact a copy of the entire thing. The really amazing part, though, is that we can find these fractal structures in the world all around us: From a stalk of broccoli, to a snail shell, to the very blood vessels in our bodies! Even evolution itself could be viewed as a fractal process: Small incremental changes in the DNA code compounded upon each other over millennia, and out of simple cells blossomed the vastly intricate web of life we find ourselves in today.

   To me, fractals seem to be a main mechanism by which the universe expresses itself. They allow seemingly unlimited complexity to spring from ultimately simple processes. My work attempts to make use of this mechanism to recreate this phenomenon visually. In this way, what I'm doing can be summed up in three easy words: "Complexity from Simplicity."