Geometry in the walnut grove: an applied mathematical approach to art

A land art project exploring the landscape and geometry of a beautiful grove of walnut trees gives a setting to consider a perceptualist framework for creativity, bringing in mathematical abstraction as a tool to document and reflect on a first intuitive experience of place. We visit mathematics as metaphor, projective geometry and Andy Goldsworthy on the way to the art project and a discussion of the application of the ideas to teaching.

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