Edition of 2 of 12

Pigment Ink on sustainable bamboo Awagami washi paper

118 x 84 cm (46.46 x 33.07 in)

This design is based on a five-fold aperiodic tiling, related to the Penrose Tiling.

This print uses a technique inspired by the great era of scientific discovery and classification, which reached a peak with Ernst Haeckel’s Art Forms in Nature. With this tessellation I searched for sea creatures that fit the general shape I had worked out in scientific papers and illustrations, and then drew my own version of them.

The design has two kinds of starfish, 3 colours of sea urchin, and two types of shells. All these creatures have very geometric forms, which are themselves structured by fivefold symmetries or fibonacci spirals, so they are both made of the geometry, and forming the geometry together. This creates a visual rhyming and consonance between the components and the overall system.

This is a part of the “Full House” series, a collection of special works from my research that don’t fit into the exhibition series but are nonetheless very interesting. They are very large, taking up almost the full sheet. They are signed together with a custom hand applied seal in the bottom right corner of the artwork, so they can be framed with a mount up to the image boundary, if desired, as the signature doesn’t extend into the border.