This is one of my first pieces of art given to my wife a few years ago to mark our 34 years together. It contains rectangles whose sides are all numbers from Fibonacci sequence -- the largest being 13 x 13 and the smallest ones are 1 x 1. One is gray, one is green, two are beige, three are yellow, and five are garnet. This artwork captured so many aspects of our lives, including the 13 x 13 box that represented the passage from a reading at our wedding. The art represents many elements of our family -- some include the two of us, the three children, and the family of five.
Mathematics, like art, is representational, symbolic, moving, and it stimulates the sense of wonder. It is why I so strongly believe that when we see mathematics,
we see its beauty -- for it’s art and when we see art, we see its beauty -- for it is mathematics.
And in the end, three things endure: faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is love.
--1 Corinthians 13:13
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