About the work
A line leaves one form and reaches another. Some lengths hold tight. Others soften into a curve.
Five unequal planes share a field. Their angles and distances give the connecting lines different roles. A shape can appear self-contained until we follow what passes through it.
Following the connection
The eye can begin almost anywhere and find a way toward another part. The intervals also become shapes: a narrow wedge, a broad open field, a shallow curve held beneath two surfaces.
We can imagine a movement traveling through the arrangement. The work suggests interdependence through visual tension; it is a static composition rather than a model of physical forces.
Where the idea began
Donella Meadows's Dancing With Systems asks us to consider the condition of the whole when changing a part. That idea became an inquiry into relationships that give separate forms a shared composition. Read the source essay.
The relief, pigment and thread are digital interpretations. Explore the idea in practice.
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