November 15, 2011

flavor of the week: connecting art

Too often we forget that art can never, by principle, fall into strict categorization.  After all, art is a physical manifestation of creativity--this remarkable quality that links everything together.  What separates paintings from fashion from music or from cinema when it comes to the realm of creativity?  It's a blurry line that separates one medium from another when you realize how inspiration blooms from everything.  

The perfect example of this is Tatiana Plakhova's artistic rendition of synesthesia, a neurological condition that blends senses together.  Plakhova seamlessly links intricate graphics to the haunting music of Philip Glass in this video.  The result, as well as in her other videos, is inexplicably profound, perhaps because of the vast scope of topics--math, biology, astronomy, music, biology, and physics--it ecompasses.  

http://www.complexitygraphics.com/#708026/MUSIC-PORTRAITS-video

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