I am captured by the beauty of it. Seeing numbers, these foundational aspects of our universe, transform into such complex structures on their own, becoming something brilliant. Something that turns the wheel of the cosmos. Light and energy and matter. Strings of numbers that don’t just increase, but fold back on themselves and decrease like the undulating of tidal shifts, unexpected and exciting. Simple sums that form infinitely complex fractals, swirling seas of numbers that are reflected in perfect symmetry and go on and on, further and smaller than the core components of reality. Mathematics goes beyond what we can observe. It obscures as much as it clarifies. It is everything.
Paddy Dobson
22nd August 2023