Rainbow Pentagrams
Steve Iskovitz
Artist Statement:
My art is based entirely on the Golden Ratio. (a/b =b / a+b, or x+x(squared) =1).
When I originally tried to express my fascination with this number and realized that virtually no-one understood or cared about the math, I made it a mission to express it through other means. And so I decided to draw, then paint it, eventually incorporating the rainbow spectrum.
The idea was to leave myself out of it and simply express math and science, and not art. Only after some years did I come to accept the level to which the work came from my own thoughts and vision, and to call it art.
Nonetheless, the Golden Ratio, the number which is balance itself, and which expresses itself through the pentagon, pentagram and the 36-degree angle, remains its core and inspiration.