Education
By Daniel Friedman
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Inspired by Education: the unfolding process of improvement and discovery. Scanned image of 431 x 575 pixels, of hand-made ink drawing on 8.5 x 11 inch paper.
About Daniel Friedman
Inspired by brains, ant colonies, and other complex systems, my art explores how global patterns arise via local relationships. The production of a drawing for me is actually not unlike the mining of a blockchain: an intricate process that can be laborious to perform perfectly, but with an intrinsic coherence that is self-evident after completion. Now with the creation of Curio Cards, the metaphorical mapping between cryptocurrencies and my art is meaningfully strengthened. Indeed now more than ever we are seeing the fusion of art with technology and science, reminding me of a favorite quotation by Goethe: '…science arose from poetry, and when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends…' — Daniel Friedman