Symmetries I Print

Beginning with my bagatelle paintings, I became intrigued by symmetries and began building them piece by piece. First the cut pattern in paper, then mirrored line drawings in pencil and pen, layer upon layer. We think of nature as random and chaotic, but there are an infinite number of patterns we see every day. What do the patterns signify? Is there an equation to describe their balance and organization? Unlike Fibonacci, I don't think in terms of numbers or equations or algorithms; I focus on the resulting pattern and the possible meaning. A drawing isn't an instruction, it's a suggestion or a set of suggestions. As I look at this composition months after I created it I can't remember what I was thinking or what it was saying to me, but it feels as engaging as it did then. I created a dozen or so similar images at the time. This was the most successful, its vocabulary of elements seems freshest looking at it again. As if I used the best available forms in this one image, emptying out the box. Since then the box has replenished itself and I plan to try assembling another one... Trying to describe this image, the available terms seemed insufficient. Rococo? Sure. But there's something of Steampunk in it, with Arcadian elements too. I'm reminded of the production design in Fritz Lang's Metropolis, and Raphael's grotesques. In any case, it's all borrowed. Everything is an echo of something else we've seen before.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:13.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in

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