At this point, it is possible to compare Wallace Stevens and Jackson Pollock. In “The Snow Man,” Stevens exploits the human ability to process recursive structures, in this case the embedding of structures inside structures with the help of the

conjunction and. The relevant grammatical rule is something like this:
S --> S and S
yielding a recursive structure like this:
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Jackson Pollock may have exploited the same ability to process

recursive structures, in this case the recursive nature of fractals. This illustration from Martins and colleagues’ article (2014, fig. 2) demonstrates how a fractal works recursively:
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