Bio

Robert John Glass (Jr.) grew up in the Midwest, worked with sea turtles in Georgia and Costa Rica, studied night hawks, beetles and moths, lived on deserted beaches and backpacked the Sierra Nevada. He fell in love with the beauty of natural fluid mechanics while in graduate school at Yale and after his PhD at Cornell University, he came to New Mexico to conduct research in the geologic sciences, the flow of water and other fluids within the subsurface. Using self-invented quantitative visualization techniques, his experiments illuminated the beauty and science of emergent flow structure within rocks, fractures and soils. In time, he enlarged his view to encompass emergent, self-organized structure (pattern) within general non-equilibrium complex systems (such as human systems) as they ever surround us in this world. Recently he has transitioned from practicing the art of science to the creation of art driven by experimental discovery.