Helaman Ferguson

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«It is a feeling not uncommon amongst artists, that in
their greatest works they are revealing eternal truths
which have some kind of prior etherial existence... but
the case for believing in some kind of etherial, eternal
existence, at least for the more profound mathematical
concepts, is a good deal stronger than in those other
cases. There is a compelling uniqueness and universality
in such mathematical ideas which seems to be of quite a
different order from that which one could expect in the
arts. »  Roger Penrose in his essay The Emperor's New Mind
(Penrose, 1989)
 From  CREATIVITY: A BRIDGE BETWEEN ART AND MATHEMATICS:
http://www.olats.org/colloque/textes/texte7.shtml
On Fergusons methods:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n7_v149/ai_18051359

Ferguson himself speaking on the mindracking complexity of
his thought proccesses developing one piece in particular.
 Michelangelo's Night and Day come into it at least twice.

Mr. Ferguson's space machine takes him to some startling
and original terrain.  Of what his work comprises I cannot
say but I do know it has little to do with everyday
recognitions of form, natural or man-made.  He is way
outside the play-pen of allusion and metaphor.  Can it be
art if it is neither allusive or metaphorical?  It is art
in the character of a natural wonder.  If it inspires awe,
and it does to some degree in me, why ask questions.
http://www.helasculpt.com/gallery/eskertrefoiltorusI/
http://hebert.kitp.ucsb.edu/gallery/hf/cosinewildsphere2-s.jpg