A Lesson with Francis Bacon Forced Me to See Out of the Software Box

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Computers became more standard in the early 80s and science and technology were influencing artists like myself. I began using a supercomputer and FORTRAN 77 software in order to define a non-Euclidean geometry model using conformal mapping to create art. A series of twisted and curved space images was manifested and reflective to Einstein’s general and special relativity. It was my encounter with Dr. Edward Teller, “the father of the H-bomb,” that let me to artist Francis Bacon. It was a private lesson with the artist that forced me out of the box into my own visual world.