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March 27, 2017 | Aesthetics

By Angus Fletcher

In a daring and boundary defining paintings, Angus Fletcher clears an area for an highbrow come upon with the form of human imagining. becoming a member of literature and topology—a department of mathematics—he maps the methods the imagination’s contours are shaped by means of the round earth’s styles and cycles, and exhibits how the area we inhabit additionally inhabits us.

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