I am commenting math artist Fomenko"s book "Mathematical impressions" with random quotes that pop up in my mind - and my own artwork and partially related stuff.
(This book gives me incredible joy.)
"I think of my drawings as if they were photographs of a strange but real world, and the nature of this world, one of infinite objects and processes, is not well known. Clearly there is a connection between the mathematical world and the real world.... This is the relationship I see between my drawings and mathematics." Anatolii Fomenko, in the Introduction
[Well said. He describes it like I would describe it myself. ]
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Fomenko" s words on page 11:
["As individuals, we are so small that we can see only a small part of this larger world, which is sufficiently bigger than our capacity to understand it. But through mathematics, we can get some general sense of what this larger world is like, though we certainly cannot understand all the details. That is simply impossible."]
My "comments" below:
At the center there is a picture with black background and a quote by Ian Stewart on the left:
If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.
And my drawing with an impossible object from 2014 on the right.
Glued on that centered picture is a folded black-white photo of a page from my book "Mathematical landscapes" (I published it in 2019 in German as well as English under the publishing company united p. c. ) - besides the German version of the book. It is folded so only a quote is visible:
The depicted quote of my book says:
"Could you even recognize the entire picture if you only saw a few pieces of the puzzle?"
[The title of the text this quote belongs is "Islands".]
In the left corner is another one of my drawings from 2022 (last year): A puzzle piece with the quote:
"The whole is more than the sum of its parts, because it contains both the parts as well as the interaction patterns between the parts. "
