Through Her Eyes: Krystyna Laycraft

Krystyna was born in Poland.  She finished her study at the University of Warsaw as a theoretical physicist.  After moving to Canada, she continued her graduate study and worked as a scientist at the University of Calgary.  Currently, she runs the Centre for Chaos Studies and gives lectures on an application of Chaos Theory in creativity, psychology, and education.  She has recently returned to the University of Calgary to pursue Ph.D. in Educational Research.  She is a member of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences and an active member of Federation of Canadian Artists. 

Krystyna's Website: http://www.krystynaart.com/

Tea with the Artist

When: Tuesday, March 16, 201012 - 1pm

Journey through the Chaos Theory

Throughout the last two years, I opened myself to a variety of experiences by visiting familiar places like my native country - Poland, by traveling to new places like New Zealand, Singapore, Greece and Australia, and by attending scientific conferences.  Some events, exhibitions, talks and images caught my attention and become the bifurcation points of my creation.  I created series of paintings "Bifurcations" - "Visual Consciousness", "Everyone can be artist", "Bulletism", "Polka", "Birth", and "Knosos Palace".

Dynamics of human life have their evolutionary trajectories, described by attractors.  In my artist work, I examine people's actions which usually draw towards the six chaotic attractors: freedom, love, pleasure, power, knowledge and longevity.  The second series of paintings called "Attractors" is: "Consciousness as a Strange Attractor", "Love", "Knowledge", "Power", "Freedom", "Pleasure", "persona", and "Dissipative Structure,"  My experiment, to be more open and sensitive to the inside of myself and to the outside world, gave me unexpected results in the forms of new knowledge and new artistic creations.