ART AS SCIENCE / SCIENCE AS ART

The scope of J. Yasha Kresh’s multidisciplinary career spans (bio)physical, (bio)mathematical, and (bio)medical sciences, applying complex system theory/analysis to study cardiac adaptation (e.g. heart-brain interaction, chaotic rhythms) in heart-failure and transplant patients. The more recent research effort was extended to cellular-repair / regeneration and cardiovascular biomimicry of induced helical-flow in designing a new generation of artificial hearts and mechanical circulatory support systems. Having lived in the former Soviet Union / Ukraine, Poland, Italy, Israel, and France before his 16th birthday, his formative education was without traditional roots. He naturally gravitated towards being intellectually open to exploring everything. “Looking back I can see how the patterns of my interests were woven." At the time, I had no perspective on the direction of my life, “all I knew for sure was that I was fascinated by how things worked, and by the practical applications and assembly of symbolic abstract expressions.”

The realization that there is unity in knowledge or consilience that extended from cell culture assemblies to social complex dynamics and adaptation was a revelation that reaffirmed my early notion and sense of “oneness.”  Taking common-found objects (e.g. cast iron tools/metal forms) and assembling them into an aesthetic universal expression (3-D hieroglyphic memes) that evoke emotional memory and response, giving them a purposefully extended life, resilience, and boundless oneness.