concept mood board

concept mood board

swatch explorations

swatch explorations


i have my inspiration and my idea and i have seen how various people have translated fractals into products. yet i feel stuck somehow i cannot conjure up any image of how i want my surface to look. what kind of a feel do i want to create, where do i use it.
usually when u have everything in place your mind automatically runs around trying to figure our what technique would translate it best.
i don't want to use dyes this time or at least want to avoid their use. i wish to explore the properties of a material and use it to alter the surface and avoid introducing a foreign substance.
so i tried manipulating the fabric my tessellating it in various ways.some of my swatch exploration are shown.

mind map

jackson pollock

Jackson Pollock's Fractals

The abstract painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is widely known for his spectacular, wall-sized paintings, which typically feature a combination of swirling drips, bright splotches, and bold, rhythmic streaks.Pollock's signature technique, which he developed in the late 1940s and early 1950s, was to drip house paint--in colors such as black, white, silver, taupe, and teal--from hardened, worn-out brushes, sticks, and other applicators onto enormous sheets of canvas spread across the floor. His approach, however, was somewhat more systematic than the chaotic results might suggest.
Pollock would begin by using a series of fluid strokes to draw a collection of loopy figures. When the paint dried, he would connect the scattered shapes with darker, thicker slashes of pigment. Additional layers of dripped, poured, and hurled paint would further obscure the original forms, creating a dense web of trails across the canvas.
The researchers discovered that Pollock's patterns could be characterized as fractals--shapes that repeat themselves on different scales within the same object. In a fractal object or pattern, each smaller structure is a miniature, though not necessarily identical, version of the larger form. Fractals often occur in nature, from the meanderings of a coastline, in which the shapes of small inlets approximate the curves of an entire shoreline, to the branchings of trees and the lacy forms of snowflakes and ferns.

fractals to tesselations

fractals lead to tessellations.A tessellation is created when a shape is repeated over and over again covering a plane without any gaps or overlaps.
tesselation occurs in nature just as fractals occur.

mathematics in textiles

explore the importance of geometric patterns in artistic design. Since ancient times, human beings have observed the world around them and found recurring patterns in nature. The Golden Proportion, the Fibonacci Series, symmetry movements, tessellations and fractals are some of the mathematical ideas that have found their way into art and architecture for thousands of years.

nature or chaos hs an order in which it occurs. this order is always pleasing to the eye because it relates to what we understand as proportion.
its about using algebraic equations to formukate the weaving pattern

or the fibonacci series-
A mathematical sequence consists of a series of numbers, usually starting at 0 or 1, all of which are derived from preceeding ones according to formal rules. In other words, no matter where you are in the sequence you ought to be able to deduce what the following number should be.The fascinating thing about it is that this sequence is actually found in nature with amazing frequency

fractals in nature