I’ve had Kaz Maslanka’s Dog Dream bookmarked since November. I intended to post it after I better understood the concept of mathematical poetry, ideally so I could explain it to you, Dog Art Today readers. Alas, it’s over my head and you’re on your own. Here is Kaz’s definition from his blog:
“Mathematical poetry is an artistic expression created by performing mathematical operations on words or images as if they were numbers. One may find this baffling because it seems we are confused about knowing the difference between the states of quality versus quantity. But it is through the fusion of this dichotomy that mathematical metaphor is spawned. Mathematics, has always been used for denotation. However our interest is to use math as a language for connotation.”
I like the dog, the word “dream” in the title, and the pretty colors. The American Mathematical Society did too, and accepted Kaz’s Dog Dream to their 2008 exhibition.
Congratulations, Kaz! Send us more dog math : )
P.S. Dog Dream is in the form of an orthogonal space poem. I dare you to click here and see what that means. Go for it and blow your mind looking at words and math meld into one.
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