We are the mirrorof each other: an interview with Jeannie Baker

摘要

A long time ago — perhapsalmost 20 years ago — I was privy to a conversation with a mathematics teacher and picture book artist Jeannie Baker. The mathematics teacher, who had been reading a lot of popular science at the time, enthusias-tically explained to Jeannie how her collages were, in addition to being exquisite pieces of art, perfect examples of fractals. I knew Jeannie a little at the time of this conversation, but I had no clue as to how she might react. Would she be horrified and offended by this scientific reduction of her work? My memory of it is that she was both fascinated and delighted by the comparison.