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I started painting in the fifties, but didn't get serious until the eighties when I had a lot of time to spend in the small towns of eastern California. I inherited a physics background. In the fifties, while some were into eastern philosophy, I was scratching equations in the sand and getting interested in mathematical models of things as diverse as symbolic interaction theory and molecular structure.

It is the revealing nature of mathematical structure that attracts me to painting, and in a lesser way, to photography. Most people think of mathematics as a rigid idea, but in fact it is the most fluid of all disciplines and is simply the language that describes organizing principles, whether in science or art. In my opinion, the works of Cezanne are the best examples of underlying unity. The paintings are composed follow rigorous principles that yield fluid, deceptively simple looking visual expressions.

Charles Frenzel...2003