PI F(X)=180SIN(PI/180)
DRAWING, PENCIL ON PAPER, 2015
JASON D. PADGETT (US))
Jason D. Padgett was a struggling futon salesman for decades until a traumatic event changed the path of his life. A violent mugging forever altered the way his brain works, giving him unique gifts. His ability to understand math and physics skyrocketed, and he developed the astonishing ability to draw the complex geometric shapes he saw everywhere. The first documented case of acquired savant syndrome, “…somebody with extraordinary talent but who wasn’t born with it and who didn’t learn the skills from somewhere else later.” — The Atlantic, with mathematical synesthesia, Jason is a medical marvel. His stunning, mathematically precise artwork illustrates his intuitive understanding of complex mathematics.
Science Gallery Dublin commissioned Pi f(x)=180sin(Pi/180) from Jason as part of TRAUMA. Jason had the following to say about his new piece: “Perfect circles don’t exist. As you square a circle the edge gets smoother to infinity but never becomes a perfect circle, because a perfect circle would have an infinite number of sides. Like the resolution on a TV screen. If you keep making the pixels half their size to infinity, you always have a bumpy edge. Its edges gets smoother to infinity but never reaches it.”
BIO:
Jason D. Padgett is an acquired savant and TED speaker. His bestselling autobiography Struck by Genius, co-authored with Maureen Seaberg is being adapted as a major motion picture by Sony and Channing Tatum. His art has been displayed in People Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Popular Science, Wired, CBS This Morning with Gale King, The London Times NBC, CBS, FOX news, the hit show Perception, at Oxford University, ABOMB Bakehouse at Art Basel Miami Beach, books, music albums and TV programs in over sixty countries.