Organized Chaos Print

The work "Organized Chaos" is part of a series where I have been looking for a balance between two types of order - a formal, rational, geometric order and a natural, organic or fractal order. With a background in drafting, geometry and architecture the formal geometric order was relatively easy. To be able to draw shapes that had the look and feel of organic shapes, as if they had been generated by naturally processes, took years of practice. Over nearly a decade beginning in the 2000s I filled sketchbooks with ink line drawings as I developed a vocabulary of organic shapes. At one point I started slipping a drawing of rectangles under the page to provide an organizing framework for the irregular shapes. Once I had created some line drawings in black ink that I liked I imported the images into Photoshop where I filled shapes with color and layered in geometric patterns I had also created in Photoshop. After creating the design I was first going to make a set of limited edition prints but learned too late that the ink I had used was not archival. I decided as an alternative I would let Saatchi art create archival prints for me.