Though Jamaican-American artist Renee Cox has employed photography as her primary medium throughout the course of her career, in her series “Sacred Geometry”, she deconstructs her images using digital manipulation, to take a deeper look at race and gender.
My new body of work, “Sacred Geometry”, consists of digitally manipulated black & white portraits that display self-similar patterns. They are executed with precision, creating sculptural kaleidoscopes of the human body while exploring the power of symbols as elements of collective imagination. The inspiration for this new work comes from fractals, a mathematical concept centuries old and used by many ancient African cultures.
Renee Cox “Sacred Geometry” from Donald McKenzie on Vimeo.
