An artist's mind reflects its intellectual surroundings. Perhaps it is then logical for a painter transplanted from Paris to the Silicon Valley to develop an interest in sciences and the visual aspects of mathematics.

Throughout history, geometry in still life has awakened the interest of viewers, pointing them to the presence of order amid the chaos of life, or deceiving their visual sense with twisted perspectives. Geometry also creates a visual shortcut to the engaging world of mathematics, which, for most of us, just shimmers in the distance.

The challenge now is to explore the possible representations of infinity and perhaps, one day, in a close cooperation between artists and scientists, to explain 11 dimensions in 2.

Lisah Horner is a relief printmaker, currently working on a series of Oregon and California landscapes. Major influences have been the Japanese woodblock printmakers Hokusai, Hiroshige, and Hiroshi Yoshida. Instead of using their multiple block method, she incorporates a single "key block" technique using linoleum, and then hand watercolors the prints.

"As an escapee from the flat state of Florida, my life changed the moment I laid eyes on the intensely beautiful west coast. The landscape, quality of light, and climate immediately influenced my prints and paintings."

Lisah Horner is a graduate of Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota, Florida. Her work has been shown throughout the United States. She has been invited to exhibit at the Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea, in Florence, Italy.