About the Artist
Booker Johnson is a multimedia artist based in Los Angeles making work that explores chaos and abstraction.
Iterative Distortion, 2021
Untitled, 2022
About the Work
This installation by artist Booker Johnson explores chaos theory, complexity, and his personal experience with ADHD. ADHD is sort of a paradoxical thing it is mostly known for its distractible nature– jumping from one idea to another. But another symptom is the exact opposite: hyper concentration. These two forces are represented in these works as machine-made chaos and human chaos.
These works also represent the idea of complexity. Everything is complicated. Visual, conceptual, structural, and physical complexity are essential qualities of our twenty-first century world. Chaos theory is a concept in math/science colloquially called the butterfly effect.
It describes a property of some systems, where small changes to initial conditions can lead to vastly different results. Booker applies these ideas in his art practice by utilizing iterative processes.
These works also represent the idea of complexity. Everything is complicated. Visual, conceptual, structural, and physical complexity are essential qualities of our twenty-first century world. Chaos theory is a concept in math/science colloquially called the butterfly effect.
It describes a property of some systems, where small changes to initial conditions can lead to vastly different results. Booker applies these ideas in his art practice by utilizing iterative processes.