Tatiana Plakhova is a Russian artist who has worked with BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Paramount, Playboy, and HP, and who first studied psychology before pursuing a degree and profession in design. Her works are very etherial and dreamlike, most often with stars or repeated patterns; she describes her work as "infographic abstracts". To Plakhova, everything people see comes from pre-registered biological, mathematical, cultural, or geographic context, and she works to show them through "mathematical simplicity and harmony". Her work contains fractal images, perfect eliptical pathways, and gridlines in any number of point perspectives.
In looking through Plakhova's portfolios, I feel like I've seen similar pieces in maths and science textbooks, or in National Geographic or science magazines or articles, or anything related to the subjects. I realized that this is what she meant by infographic, and that even though the images do not get into depth about the concepts, they visually describe the title or theme through a progression of time and movement. The viewer gets the general idea of a cell section or orbital mechanics, and as they continue through the individual galleries, the pieces get more abstracted and the cells they just looked at have formed a honeycomb network that may or may not be the combination of all cells or a further microscopic image of just one.
One series I found outstanding is Light Beyond Sound, which begins with vector-like pathways in a space created by background perspective lines. It's ridiculously detailed, with small (starry)(pinpointed) marks on the pathways and points of expansion. The "light" is really emphasized in the beginning, but gets pushed away from the viewer later, where the possible universe the viewer was seeing is isolated, and is showing its movements, sections, changes, and eventually is shown as a part of a more massive network of physics. Cleverly, the very clearly mathematical designs resemble chandeliers and flames.
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