ENTRY DESCRIPTION
I had the idea to create an image that displays a very significantly reduced visual information of a running track in a stadium. Running has accompanied my life since the late 60s of the last century. At my first picture that was published by 1x in October 2013 a running track was displayed from the perspective of a 100 m runner. A second similar image, published in February 2014, showed another perspective. With this third image I wanted to create an even more abstract version and distilled approach which is suitable to be displayed on an advertising poster for an athletics meeting.

AUTHOR
Born 1949 in Lüdenscheid, Germany.

Hans-Martin Dölz studied Mathematics and Business Administration at the Universities of Bochum and Göttingen and graduated in 1979 with a master’s degree in Business Administration.

After retirement, his passion for art was ignited. His first artworks were graphic images, computer-generated via mathematical algorithms. He was fascinated by the interplay between colors, lines and shapes. These works drew inspiration from French media artist Vera Molnár who is considered a pioneer of computer art back in the 1960s. He later experimented using actual photographs as seeds of computer modifications that turned them into abstract images. Some of these explorations involved fractals, which lead to universes within universes, never ending cascades of self-similar geometric beauty. 

Since 2013 Hans-Martin focuses mainly on photography without alteration. Most of his images capture the stunning geometric patterns that can be found in man-made structures and the natural world. Recently, candid photography has also become one of his areas of interest. His work has been published worldwide and it has been recognized with numerous international awards. 

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