Thrackle Conjecture Part I
Thrackle Conjecture, Pencil on Bristol, 11 x 17 inches, 2018 These things are "thrackles," drawings where every line touches every other line once and only once (by endpoint or traverse). Everyone draws thrackles all the time - a five pointed star and a triangle are both thrackles. This concept is remarkably simple which is interesting because the thrackle conjecture is one of the great unsolved geometry problems in mathematics. The goal is to draw a thrackle that has more li
Dinosaur Diaries 2018
Most of you know I spend my summers in Montana digging up dinosaurs for the Carthage Institute of Paleontology. I have been volunteering on dinosaur digs since 2015 but this summer was special because I finally brought a group of my own students from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. What follows are photographs shot by myself and the crew as well as scans of the field journals with drawings, diagrams, and fossil finds. Enjoy! A few quick acronyms and vocabulary to m
