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Unit to Pattern
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Keiko Mori
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Fibonacci Sequence Being influenced by Sol LeWitt and Piet Mondrian through practicing and learning oil painting and printmaking, I have been interested in creating fields, patterns, or space out of a simple unit by repeating it sometimes randomly and sometimes systematically. Keeping the concept of "unit to pattern" in mind, I decided to add another theme to my project, which is a combination of art and mathematics. As a Studio Art Major and a Mathematics Minor at my college, I have been looking for a way to combine these two fields that seem to be totally different. What I decided is to make a unit based on a mathematical sequence and multiply the unit systematically to create a new pattern or space. The mathematical sequence I used for my project is Fibonacci Sequence which was found by Leonardo Pisano Fibonacci (1170-1250). It is a sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers: For example, "1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55..." Therefore it has a very rapid increase in its numbers. This is the main reason why I picked Fibonacci Sequence for the project. I found out that a unit created based on a mathematical sequence which has a rapid increase or decrease in its numbers would be able to create some kind of light when it is repeated systematically. To explore the concept of "unit to pattern", I sometimes used a pattern I created as a unit to make a new pattern and used the new pattern as a unit to create another new pattern, and so on. Because there are infinitely many different patterns you could create by using the same mathematical sequence, the red part of each piece is working as something like a stamp which shows the character of each. |
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Reflect Instead of using a mathematical sequence, I made patterns by using a concept of the angle of reflection. I visualized the action of "reflection" by showing light reflecting on the outer circle. The pattern is created by systematically multiplying a triangle, hexagon, and dodecagon that all fit in the same outer circle. By having various opacities for lines, I was able to input a feel of distance and volume in the space. I also combined various kinds of reflection such as the white and black rectangles reflecting each other. Like I did for the Fibonacci series, I explored the concept of "unit to pattern" by making a new pattern reflect on the edges of the space to create another new pattern. |
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Puzzle The same as the Reflect series, the idea for the Puzzle project contains two concepts. One is the concept of "unit to pattern" where its unit is the letters "P", "U", "Z", "Z", "L", and "E", and the other is a visualization of the function of puzzle. The letters shown on the colorful piece (the one on the left below) contains the same number of each letter, and they are distributed randomly like how puzzle pieces are. Therefore the process of making the puzzle piece was just like solving a puzzle. Instead of completing the puzzle, I left it unfinished because I wanted an audience to feel the sense of participation. The monochrome pieces on the right below do not do anything with the concept of the fuction of puzzle. I treated what I got on the colorful piece as just a field and, by adding white and black squares on top, I was successful to create interesting patterns with a random field and a systematic field layered together. |
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I would like to thank Mr. Shinnosuke Sugisaki for providing me this great opportunity and experience to study in his studio and each one the members at his studio for their support. I also would like to thank with all my heart my grandparents, each member of my family, and my friends for always supporting me. |
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