- Catrin O'Hara
- Chichester Iris Fractal, !V, 2025
- Archival quality print of original fractal artwork
- 32 x 22 in (81.28 x 55.88 cm)
- Signature: This single archival quality print comes with a signed certificate of authenticity. A vector signature (handwriting placed bottom right, vertically) is what I use on all my digital artworks, generally in green.
The series culminates in a vision of empty frames and phantom swamps, where the fractal patterns suggest a dream-world with impossible perspective. Emerging on the horizontal plane as if seen face on we see the curved boundaries of a pond or lake while standing on the vertical and apparently in the foreground is a large partly broken variation of the same outline making the eye pass from water to air and back. The tall, proud irises that sparked this series were found growing unbidden on wasteland, loud and joyful despite their surroundings; this work channels that same defiant vitality into a new form. The "shells" that frame the void are not emptiness, but vessels of potential, hinting at seas that have yet to be filled and stories yet to be told. It is a powerful assertion that creation is a response to constraint, a way to resist and explore new horizons in and face the unknown. The work refuses to be a passive document; instead, it acts as a mirror, reflecting the viewer's own capacity to imagine life beyond the boundaries of the known. In this final iteration, the human soul, stimulated and delighted, creates something never seen beforeāa new world born from the seeds of the old.