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Director Biography – Patrick Lysaght
As a research engineer in the semiconductor industry, the realization that atoms self-organize into fractal branching networks altered Patrick Lysaght’s life. For the past decade he has been telling the incredible story of physical patterns we share with the world we inhabit through an amazing collection of photos and moving images from all 7 continents.
Lysaght transcends language and cultural differences with his original vision focused on the human condition. His inventive approach to filmmaking is accessible to all.
The documentary film Fleeting Structure is based on his new book, Morphology of Fleeting Structure – the art and science of fluid flow and crystal growth in the living and nonliving worlds. It is an appreciation of our physical connection with nature in a time of waning truth and a call-to-action to protest social injustice, confront the anti-science movement, and reestablish truth in society. Lysaght passionately wrote, directed, produced, and performed the soundtrack for this unique film.
He has been jury selected as a Featured Artist by the European arts organization Circle Foundation for the Arts. His photographs are featured in Spotlight – 25, as an artist who exemplifies “current trends and original practices that tell the story of what visual art looks like today.”
He taught physics at the University of New Mexico and acoustics at the College of Santa Fe. He also served on funding panels for the New Mexico Arts Division categories of music, artist-in-residence, and interdisciplinary projects.
Director Statement
There is no substitute for detaching from the man-made world to realize we are evolving under the same physical guidelines that shape the planet. Wilderness is where we can find thrilling new ways of fitting into the whole shebang!
Along with the boundless wonder and awesome splendor that accompanies the images in this film, an underlying sense of urgency is conveyed throughout Fleeting Structure. Life is short. How do we find meaning?
Lysaght paints natural images in saturated colors of light in the style of Vittorio Storaro to animate efficient fractal branching networks of fluid flow and the geometric precision of crystal growth.
“I’m interested in transitions – how structure forms as things change, which underscores the notion of entropy and the subtle progression of time. I try to capture the paradox of exquisite structure spontaneously emerging in our world of increasing randomness and disorder. My images represent lyrical portraits of entropy!” he has said.
New York SCIENCE & NATURE FEEDBACK Film Festival 
