self-attracting/self-avoiding, 2018

These photographs are playful experiments in response to words and concepts found in two papers, Loop-weighted walk by Tyler Helmuth and Self-attracting self avoiding walk by Alan Hammond and Tyler Helmuth.

Some of the words/concepts I am directly responding to are: Self-interacting, self-attracting, self-avoiding, random walks, loops, repulsion, loop erasure, spin, bubble chain, memory, zigzag, unwieldy, spacelike, non-empty collections, hyperedges, connectedness, flips, heaps of pieces (I especially like heaps of pieces).

The following recurring themes will also be featured in this work: Reveal and conceal, affect, the use of layers and collage, sound, and the otherworldly/make-believe.

These series was created for an instagram take-over for the UWE Photography Research Group, you can see it here.

A selection of these images were included in the Visions of Science exhibition at the Andrew Brownsword Gallery, University of Bath, Sept-Oct 2018.

The image Loop Erasure was also included in the Humble Arts Foundation Group Show #59: ‘Numerology’, Online. Dec 2018.

Chrystal Cherniwchan

Chrystal Cherniwchan