Janaia Donaldson - Limbnal Gallery

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	I love trees and live among them on 160 acres in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. I discovered fractal art through John Briggs' book Fractals: Patterns of Chaos.


Cedar branch web 2002 20x29½ inches acrylic on board $500 framed		I am intrigued by the continuum between chaos and order … from seemingly random forms to highly regular ornamental ones. Reading about fractals in nature, I see their patterns in the dead branches of an incense cedar. From their apparent randomness, a symmetric geometric star weaves itself into being.

Late afternoon sun glitters behind this welcoming live oak whose massive motherly branches protect the small cedar and me.			Shining alive oak 2002 28x22 inches acrylic on paper $250 unframed

Oak mantis 2002 10x20 inches acrylic on paper $250 unframed		Late afternoon shadows on the reddened trunk fascinated me as much as the oak's insect-like limbs.