Entangled

The original concept of Entangled was inspired by text art, also known as ASCII art. I wanted to create something which had characteristics of text art, but without using any text to create it. This concept evolved drastically and the finished product only has a minor connection to ASCII, that being the pattern displayed in the background of the artwork, which is made up of hash marks combined with noise. For me, the final product of any generative piece never fully represents my initial vision...

The original concept of Entangled was inspired by text art, also known as ASCII art. I wanted to create something which had characteristics of text art, but without using any text to create it. This concept evolved drastically and the finished product only has a minor connection to ASCII, that being the pattern displayed in the background of the artwork, which is made up of hash marks combined with noise. For me, the final product of any generative piece never fully represents my initial vision. Throughout the creation process I do a lot of experimentation, this often has unexpected results which sometimes I find appealing. For Entangled, one of these happy accidents was what I am calling "abstract growth" , which also inspired the title of the series. This abstract growth started as small weeds, but through experimenting with random values, created these long abstract lines that became entangled with the rest of the composition. I experimented with a lot of different compositions, less trees, more flowers/ plant species, but none if it felt right. I thought of the concept of being Entangled with nature and decided the trees should be the main focus, where the branches could wind around and fill the majority of the space. Adding more nature to the ground layer distracted a lot from the trees so I decided to make the ground simplistic and focus more on filling the canvas with the leaves. This created more space in the ground layer to see some basic geometry which gives a nice contrast between the unpredictable lines of nature and the structured shapes which fill the ground. Working with colors is always the hardest part of any project for me. I like to add a lot of color palettes to give a large variety to the collection. This does take away from the cohesiveness of the collection in its entirety, but gives a lot more options for collectors to find one they really enjoy.