Dear readers, gazers, critics, searchers...

Welcome to my blog!  My name is Samantha Yang, and these are images of my artwork.  In upcoming posts, you will see a title, an image, pertinent work information (dimensions, media, dates, etc.), and probably some tidbits about each piece regarding process, inspiration, fluff.

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Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy!
-Sam

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Optimization

Ink, charcoal, gesso, and graphite on paper
14" x 34"
2007
$150

Soap bubbles are used in mathematics to represent the container of minimal surface area which encloses a specific volume.  Given two volumes to be enclosed separately in a single container, the double bubble (think of two bubbles joined together) is the container of minimal surface area.  Of course, the more volumes one is given, the more complex the problem gets, but the imagery of intersecting bubbles spawned this piece.  
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1 comment:

Brent said...

Hi Sam. We hung this one up in the basement. Hope you don't mind...

kim (not Brent)

March 6, 2009 at 4:11 PM

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