A Matrixed World

Let's start with a little bit of a mind bender. Quantam physics has recently revealed the somewhat horrifying reality that we live in a holographic universe. (For more information, please reference YouTube I don't have the expertise, nor the time to say any more). What this means, in simplistic terms, is that what we think we know is nothing more than a projection, like a movie on a screen. THAT is what makes our fascination with patterns and grids all the more interesting. Nature, like the construct of our minds, operates according to patterns. In art, patterns are described as "any visual element repeated over an extended area". Contrastingly, a grid, "is created through a series of intersecting lines"(Stewart, pg. 72). My personal theory is that our attraction to grid artwork that follows certain patterns is due to our subconscious recognition that we live in a matrix-ed world, propagated through the holographic repetition of cyclical patterns. The artwork below is an example of both patterns and grid-work in design.