Repetition, particularly as employed in minimalist art, has beenudcontrasted to the poetic insofar as it is associated with notions such asudsameness and standardization, while the poetic is associated withuduniqueness and difference. In my work however, my aim is to express audpoetics of nature through the use of repetition.udBecause of the centrality of repetition, minimal ism was the initial contextudthat informed the research. But while minimalists emphasized theudmodular, which has connotations of standardization and mass production,udmy interest resides in how repetition operates in nature where there isudnever an exact replication.udThe key artists within the research context are Carl Andre whose use ofudthe modular grid evokes a sense of environment; Claude Monet inudrelation to his investigations of the nuance of changing light andudatmospheric conditions as manifested particularly in his water lily series;udPaul Klee's use of repetitive tree-like structures; Agnes Martin'sudrepetition of the horizon in her monochromatic paintings; Emily KameudKngwarreye's repetition of marks/gestures that draw on nature in herudpaintings; and Vija Celmins' repetitions of marks and of oceanic andudinter-stellar motifs.udCorrelations have been formed in the research between Gilles Deleuze'sudunderstanding of repetition within Difference and Repetition and GastonudBache lard's definition of poetics within The Poetics of Space. I proposeudthat the similarity of the operations of repetition and poetics suggests they can be viewed as being related, and that the essential condition of the twoudorders is mobility.udThe three main aspects of nature that have been researched in relation toudmobility and repetition are: the wave and its dual characteristics withinudwater and light; growth, particularly leaf vein structures that appearuduniform but are unique; and time seen through cycles and evolutions inudnature.udMy contribution to the field is in extending a dialogue in which repetitionudis not mere replication of the same but arises out of the recognition ofuddifference within sameness.
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