Curved picture space is founded on the notion that space-time is curved. This is a consequence of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. So if space-time is curved, where are the visual spaces that reference this?
Perhaps in the imagery of mandalas some of the concept of curvature can be found. But certainly not in perspective space, which is based on a limited view of Earth, one that takes in the local, but not the global environment. If the global environment is considered, then clearly space wraps around to connect to itself. Does the universe do this as a whole? As it happens, this is precisely the explanation given to how multiple dimensions occur. It was a challenge to take on such thinking, and I believe that astronauts, especially those that orbit Earth many times, would understand this curved picture space. Gravity attracts to a local centre of denser mass. This appears to be true of planets, solar systems and galaxies.
This image is informed by chaos theory - clearly, with painting hurled and flicked from a palette knife. This allows flow to determine the exact placement of the paint. The five sided shapes are Koch snowflakes, which expose how fractal scaling works.
Inside the Koch snowflakes are images of family - I was working on incorporating dna into the maths of chaos at the time of making the painting. Chaos meaning the order that emerges from chaos, of course.
It took a long time and was quite a bit of work to get the paintings to this point, where the framework of curved picture space was filled with the consequences of reading into chaos theory.
