Artist
Beverly Ress
Title
Phantom
Date2011
MediumColored pencil on paper, mounted on gessoed canvas
Dimensions44 × 95 × 5 in. (111.8 × 241.3 × 12.7 cm)
Credit LineDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Collection
Object numberDCCAH2011.017
ClassificationsDrawings
Locations
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (200 I Street SE)
DescriptionDrawing, using colored pencils on Arches paper, of the limb of a tree – life-sized. The drawing was then mounted on gessoed canvas, and hand-cut forms were created. One of the cut pieces was removed; the other was left umbilically attached to the drawing. Both cut pieces were folded together into a fully three-dimensional form – Ress’ attempt to show the ‘Lorenz Manifold’. It is based on the mathematical Lorenz equations, which describe the nature of chaotic systems.
