Poetry of Reality
Acrylic on canvas, painting sciences
Mandelbrot Set
The Mandelbrot set springs from a simple equation:
zₙ₊₁ = zₙ² + c. Yet from this seed unfolds an endless universe of shapes.
Mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot used early computer graphics to reveal these fractals,
boundaries so intricate they feel dreamed rather than calculated.
Philosophers call this mystery emergence:
the moment when simple parts unite to create something far greater than themselves.
On the canvas, this idea becomes visible.
Each curve repeats, echoes, and transforms,
as if the universe were whispering its own logic into spirals of color.
It is astonishing that such complexity rises from pure simplicity, and even more so that this pattern seems woven not only into mathematics,
but into the very fabric of the world.
Reality
“The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to understand a single word, without them, one wanders through a dark labyrinth in vain.” Galileo
There are moments of quiet contemplation,
when we allow ourselves to truly witness the beauty of the world we inhabit. We see the colors of a sunset spilling over the sea, we hear the murmur of waves and the birds crossing vast expanses of sky. We feel the soft touch of the wind on our skin.
We are moved by these tender, spellbinding fragments of what we call reality.
But...what is reality?
When we see colors, we are seeing nothing more than certain wavelengths.
When we hear sounds, we are perceiving particular frequencies.
The elementary particles that form us are the very same that form the universe.
From our small planet, in our fragile solar system, we stand here.
observers, wanderers, astonished beings,
a cluster of conscious atoms adrift in the cosmos.
When we look at “reality,”
what we see is already another version of it.
Butterfly Effect
In 1961, meteorologist Edward Lorenz attempted to simulate weather patterns by running an atmospheric model with slightly rounded initial data, an insignificant change, or so he thought.
Yet the outcome shifted dramatically.
This discovery became known as the “butterfly effect.”
The Lorenz attractor is a set of chaotic solutions to his equations: a swirling portrait of deterministic chaos, where order emerges from what appears to be disorder.
When we lack perfect knowledge of initial conditions, our ability to predict the future dissolves into near impossibility.
A tiny fluctuation, a breath of difference, reshapes everything.
And when we raise our eyes from these equations and look around us, we see life, the animals, the plants, the sky; the human body with its cells, proteins, enzymes, all moving in seamless harmony.
We see order, and we cannot help but ask:
How did life and structure arise from a universe born in chaos?
From a cloud of condensed atoms, stirred in perpetual turbulence, why this order, and not another?
We do not yet know the answers.
But we can feel the beauty of this mystery, the quiet miracle of life emerging from chaos, a mystery we try to capture through models, equations, and the fragile language of science.
Matter & Antimatter
