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The surface of the Bow River in southeast Calgary, in a view down from a bridge. The patterns seen are the result of stages of freezing from the left and right margins in toward the middle.

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Complexity of life by Krzysztof Żyła

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Complexities by night86mare

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Toa Payoh, Singapore.

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by vitoriafalabella

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Urban Complexity by Sanjib Ganguly

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Picture by Sanjib Ganguly

Tree bark - #125 by Jon Dev

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A close-up of a tree trunk in Stanley Park, southwest Calgary.

C. J.R. Devaney

COMPLEXITY OF NATURE II by Barry Haines

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Simple Complexity by El_Drragon

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Complexity: Myriad in Yellow by Andy Hough

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Number six in this ever growing series. I was taken by the lovely complex display of yellow leaves against the misty background of tangled branches and conifers.

Winter Complexity by DMCleveland

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Minto-Brown-944-Edit by Glen Bledsoe

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There are many talented minimalist photographers. While I enjoy their work I find the challenge of revealing complexity of greater interest. What appears to be random chaos is sculpted by an inherent overriding organization. Painters have long been able to represent that organizational sense, whereas most cameras (I won't say photographers) are inadequate. It takes a careful eye and post-processing to begin demonstrate this order of complexity in a way that the eye and mind of the observer begins to appreciate. We're too quick, too familiar to make sense beyond our need to navigate through the world. It takes an artist to put a frame around a scene to say, "Hold on a minute. Really take a look at this and you may begin to notice things that you never noticed before."

IR Shot with a Canon Rebel XT converted by LifePixel to Deep B&W Infrared (830nm). | super-resolution

Beautiful Complexities by Ileah DiNardo

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Model: Alysse

Wasn't really in love with this one... but then I changed the colours a bit and added the nature bokeh photo and it looked a little more appealing :)

Complexity drawing by Désiré Stezeban

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Prosperous Complexity by Lisa

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Urban forest complexity, Calgary by Jon Dev

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Close to the shore of the Bow River in northeast Calgary.

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Complexity by Nick Ramsey

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Unfathomable complexity by André Terras Alexandre

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Complexity of a Coaster by Michael Walker

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Tagging the Underground 01-09 2021, Silkscreens on waterproofing membranes, Caroline Monnet: Holding Up The Sky, Art Gallery of Burlington, 1333 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, ON by Snuffy

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Excerpt from agb.life/visit/exhibitions/holding_up_the_sky:

Caroline Monnet: Holding Up The Sky

Lee-Chin Family Gallery

In this survey of new and recent works, multidisciplinary artist Caroline Monnet centers geometries, especially the cube, to draw attention to how different spatial relationships condition the way that we live and think. Monnet’s practice moves between textiles, photography, sculpture, and film to address the complexity of Indigenous identities and bilateral legacies, drawing from her Anishinaabe and French heritages. In her work, traditional Anishinaabe sacred geometry transforms and softens the industrial into something more personal, constructing a new point of view—centering the cube. As a form, the cube is present in architecture and many traditions of building, shaping the way we understand the world and dictating the ways in which we live, play, and learn. And, like the repetitious creations unfolded in birch biting, Holding Up The Sky follows a symmetrical continuum.

The exhibition features her new work The Room (2023), a ten-foot square construction of industrial-grade styrofoam, a material used in residential buildings to create water and air-resistive barriers and insulate against inclement climate conditions. The Room is open on one side, exposing the box and welcoming the audience into its constructed space. The foam is incised with a repetitive pattern; the motifs, inspired by traditional Anishinaabe iconography, break the strictness of the industrial square form by introducing the personal and the poetic into architectural rigidity.

In conversation with The Room is Pikogan (Shelter) (2021), a sculptural work with voluminous curvatures constructed of reticulated polyethylene pipes, PVC conduits, copper, velcro, and steel. The materials are bent to shape, working against the prescription of colonial architecture, and resisting the urge to square and compartmentalize. The fluidity of the circle intentionally builds from knowledge rooted in the past. This can also be seen in the direction of Monnet’s recent photographic works that depict a formal arranging and rearranging of foam “beads” into cubed borders. Manipulating the material for the camera leads to endless possible formations and configurations.

A series of technical drawings from Monnet’s early career (2014) of multiple cube structures are seen alongside a new series of diagrams, completed in a Swedish residency, mapping the ceiling of her studio. Positioning these works in conversation illustrates the circular process of Monnet’s practice—from drafting architectural forms, to utilizing structural design to underscore the severity of the housing crisis, to manipulating industrial material into textile creations and wearable fabrics, and returning to schematic renderings and geometric linework. These are simultaneously performances for the camera and blueprints for future work.

Born to an Anishinaabe mother and a French father, Caroline Monnet is from Outaouais, Québec, and now based in Montréal. After studying at the University of Ottawa and the University of Granada, in Spain, she pursued a career in visual arts and film. Her work is regularly presented internationally and can be found in prestigious museum, private, and corporate collections. Monnet has become known for minimalist yet emotionally charged work that uses industrial materials and combines the vocabulary of popular and traditional visual cultures with the tropes of modernist abstraction to create unique hybrid forms. She is represented by Blouin Division Gallery.

At the AGB, we lean into our unique position of being a public art gallery at the crossroads of craft and contemporary art production and presentation. Monnet’s work examines the traditional craft of Anishinaabe embroidery and textiles in alternative methods and materials, exemplifying the potent fluidity of craft and contemporary art. Holding Up The Sky continues the dialogue on how new material engagement takes up space within craft and how traditional and ancestral knowledge of art production is being represented in the expanded field of contemporary art institutes.

Complexities by Manel Torralba

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tender.complexity by Jonathan Castellino

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series: www.jonathancastellino.com/thepresent/

if you want to understand beauty by writing - sometimes invisible

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and symmetry and complexity and infinity, go to the nearest flower...

textures are mine

COMPLEXITY OF SIMPLICITY - (selected by FLICKR EXPLORE) by DESPITE STRAIGHT LINES (Paul Williams)

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****This photograph was chosen on January 26th 2014 to appear on FLICKR EXPLORE(Highest Ranking: #169) . This is my Nineteenth photograph to be selected, my Tenth of the New Year which I am amazed and delighted by as I never view my images as worthy compared to some of the amazing photography out there. EXPLORE is Flickr's way of showcasing the most interesting photos within a given point in time -- usually over a 24 hour period.

Flickr receives about 6,000 uploads every minute -- That's about 8.6 million photos a day! From this huge group of images, the Flickr Interestingness algorithm chooses only 500 images to showcase for each 24-hour period. That's only one image in every 17,000!..... so I am really thrilled to have a frame picked and most grateful to everyone who visited, favourite and commented on the frame*****

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Photograph taken in the magic of the Golden hour around sunrise at 06:31am on September 7th 2011 off Lochside Drive nearby Frost Avenue and the Patricia Bay Highway 17, on the shoreline by Tullista Park in beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

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Nikon D700 75mm 1/250s f/4.5 iso200 RAW (14 bit)

Nikkor AF 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6 (1989 35mm film lens). Jessops 72mm UV filter. Hoodman soft viewfinder eyecup. Nikon MB-D10 battery grip. Two EN-EL15 batteries. Manfrotto 055XPro carbon fibre tripod & Manfrotto 327 magnesium pistol grip ball head. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS.

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LATITUDE: N 48d 38m 15.65s

LONGITUDE: W 123d 24m 12.91s

ALTITUDE: 13.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 34.60MB

PROCESSED FILE: 6.12MB

Smoking by Sigfus Sigmundsson

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My friend, Sævar, held his birthday party in the highlands of Iceland, in Kjölur. We went on hiking in Hveradalir, Kerlingarfjöll, and as he walked faster than I and my friends he was already on the other side waving when we were taking pictures and slowly hiking in his footsteps.

Hveradalir geothermal Area is located in the Highlands, by Kjolur Highland Road, in Iceland. One of the largest geothermal areas in all of Iceland, Hveradalir offers hot springs you can view up close and others that can be admired from a safe distance. The site is surrounded by the rhyolite mountains of the Kerlingarfjoll range, making for some spectacular and colorful surroundings and excellent hiking opportunities. Situated by the volcanic mountain ridge of Kerlingarfjoll, Hveradalir draws its name from the many hot springs in the area. From smaller, bubbling mud pools to larger springs of steaming water, the site offers visitors a glimpse into the stunning complexities of Iceland's geology.

One of Hveradalir's main attractions is the many striking natural formations created by the geothermal energy coursing beneath the surface. The hot waters flowing through the ground have interacted with the minerals, causing chemical changes that often result in unique patterns and colors appearing in the rocks above. Read more here: guidetoiceland.is/travel-iceland/drive/hveradalir

Complexity from above by Andrew Yeoh

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Tate Modern, London

complexities by JD GRIFFIN

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complexity...... by hb 峰銘 ang 洪

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complexity by Laura Sorrells

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Fence complexity - #2 by Jon Dev

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Jupiter's Southern Lights by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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The complexity and richness of Jupiter's "southern lights" (also known as auroras) are on display in this animation of false-color maps from NASA's Juno spacecraft. Auroras result when energetic electrons from the magnetosphere crash into the molecular hydrogen in the Jovian upper atmosphere. The data for this animation were obtained by Juno's Ultraviolet Spectrograph.

The images are centered on the south pole and extend to latitudes of 50 degrees south. Each frame of the animation includes data from 30 consecutive Juno spins (about 15 minutes), just after the spacecraft's fifth close approach to Jupiter on February 2, 2017. The eight frames of the animation cover the period from 13:40 to 15:40 UTC at Juno. During that time, the spacecraft was receding from 35,000 miles to 153,900 miles (56,300 kilometers to 247,600 kilometers) above the aurora; this large change in distance accounts for the increasing fuzziness of the features.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI

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