Alex Benedict
fine art prints • photography
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Sophie's Garden #1
Digital monotype on archival paper 11" x 8"
Sophie's Garden #2
Digital monotype on archival paper 11" x 8"
Sophie's Garden #3
Digital monotype on archival paper 8" x 11"
Sophie's Garden #4
Digital monotype on archival paper 11" x 8"
Sophie's Garden #5
Digital monotype on archival paper 11" x 8"
Sophie's Garden #6
Digital monotype on archival paper 11" x 8"
Sophie's Garden #7
Digital monotype on archival paper 11" x 8"
Sophie's Garden #8
Digital monotype on archival paper 11" x 8"
Sophie's Garden #9
Digital monotype on archival paper 11" x 8"
Sophie's Garden #10
Digital monotype on archival paper 11" x 8"
Sophie's Garden #11
Digital monotype on archival paper 11" x 8"
Sophie's Garden #12
Digital monotype on archival paper 11" x 8"
Sophie's Garden #13
Digital monotype on archival paper 11" x 8"
Sophie's Garden #14
Digital monotype on archival paper 11" x 8"
Sophie's Garden #15
Digital monotype on archival paper 11" x 8"
Sophie's Garden #16
Digital monotype on archival paper 11" x 8"
Sophie's Garden #17
Digital monotype on archival paper 8" x 11"
Sophie's Garden #18
Digital monotype on archival paper 8" x 11"
Sophie's Garden #19
Digital monotype on archival paper 8" x 11"
Sophie's Garden #20
Digital monotype on archival paper 8" x 11"
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Sophie's Garden
This series of digital monotypes are my visual meditations on the working of finite groups. Though abstract, this concept is deeply embedded in human experience. For example a clock, whether analog or digital, uses cyclic arithmetic applied to time. I was inspired by the work of the brilliant mathematician Marie-Sophie Germain (1776-1831). Her contributions to number theory advanced the branch of mathematics that investigates numbers at the most basic conceptual level.
I had an idea of Sophie's garden, where one senses the cyclic passage of seasons and the recurring creative work within those cycles. The seed of each image is a construct which juxtaposes memory and my emotional state. Through techniques of digital rendering and collage, an image grew and changed over many iterations until I felt it was ready to be printed.
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