I've been a computer professional for several decades. My artistic experience includes twenty years of creating art for illustrative purposes. For the past few years I worked in CG with Bryce and, of course, Photoshop. Finally, and -- I believe -- inevitably, I have subsequently become a creator of fractal art. The result of an education in physics and math, a career in engineering and programming, a history of professional invention and research into the properties of light, and an avocation of truth seeking, in the higher sense of the word.

Now that I've found fractal art, I've become enamored with it. My background, my experience, everything causes it to pull at me like nothing else.

I'm also attracted to the Ultra Fractal program and the community taking life from it.

Although layers of redirecting mathematics can lie between the fractal math and the resultant images, the inherent universality in it all somehow remains. The challenge of refraining from post processing (changing the image after the fractal program has produced it), of limiting oneself to the few directly controllable modification tools in Ultra Fractal, and of not laying too heavy a manual hand on the process of the mathematical generators, manages to retain the inherent sense of dialogue with the creation and to produce images that whisper of processes and places, of atoms and stars, of feelings and aspirations, of beginnings and destiny.

Troy R. Bishop
June, 2005