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LICC 2021 Entry: Tangled Tessellations, Pareidolia Wonderlands

7 images Created 8 Dec 2021

Working at the intersection of nature photography, William Morris-style wallpaper design and Islamic zellij tilework, I created a series of digital mosaics to explore how different methods of tesselating a "tile" cut from an image of Sierra Nevada manzanita could produce different "wallpaper" patterns. Because mirrored symmetries within designs evoke optical illusions of creatures, faces, and other familiar or fanciful objects, this digital art project invites its audience to explore the imaginative wonderland of human perception called "pareidolia."

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  • Featuring an ornate botanical pattern of leaves and branches, this tesselated digital mosaic has been assembled from 16 iterations of a square "tile" cut from a larger digital photograph of manzanita bushes growing in a forest on the eastern slopes of California's Sierra Nevada mountain range. This image, in contrast with its companions in the "Manzanita" series, displays the primary pattern that its "digital 'seed' tile" created with simple horizontal and vertical mirroring across a canvas. When a first matrix displays visual complexity, as this one does, that produces pleasing instances of pareidolia--optical illusions of faces, creatures, and other meaningful shapes--I play with color, shape, and line matches along offset edges of paired and clustered tiles edges to find alternate mosaic designs.
    manzanita-first matrix.jpg
  • manzanita-offset matrix 1.jpg
  • manzanita-offset matrix 2.jpg
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  • Featuring an ornate botanical pattern of leaves and branches, this tesselated digital mosaic has been assembled from 16 iterations of a square "tile" cut from a larger digital photograph manzanita bushes growing in a forest on the eastern slopes of California's Sierra Nevada mountain range.
    manzanita-final matrix.jpg
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CWP: Transforming Nature into Digital Art, by Jennifer Nelson

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