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  • Deciduous bittersweet vines lose their leaves in late autumn to reveal small, vividly colored berries in yellow, orange and red. This mosaic originated as a rectangular selection from a digital photograph of bittersweet growing alongside the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal (USA); the segment was chosen for its textural interest in combining berry clusters with tangled vines. Simple horizontal and vertical mirroring of this digital "tile" produced this mosaic's elaborate pattern.
    bittersweet arabesque.jpg
  • From the artist's "American Bittersweet" series, this surface design exploits the bittersweet vine's curling, twisting branch and twig structure to create a delicate filigree matrix. On this ornate trellis hang clusters of autumn berries shaped like bead-studded bows or brooches. Colors present in the original photograph of a specimen bittersweet vine were transformed into a palette of blues, pinks, and yellows. Image aspect ratio = 12 x 9 (24" x 18" @ 300 dpi)
    bittersweet denim lace bows.jpg
  • From the artist's "American Bittersweet" series, this surface design exploits the bittersweet vine's curling, twisting branch and twig structure to create an ornate filigree matrix studded with clusters of autumn berries. In nature, these red, orange, and yellow berries contrast starkly with the vine's gray-black bark; in this image, color editing produced turquoise and blue hues that transform berries into semi-precious stone beads and gild the vine's wiry tendrils with gold...as if Mother Nature were a fine jeweler ornamenting the earthly wilderness with her arts and crafts. Image aspect ratio = 2 x 3 (12" x 18" @ 300 dpi)
    bittersweet bejeweled.jpg
  • From the artist's "American Bittersweet" series, this 2nd-generation surface design emerged from repeating and mirroring a digital "tile" cut and copied from a previously completed "Bittersweet" matrix. Trellis filligree and circular motifs still depend on the bittersweet vine's curling, twisting branch and twig structure and berry ornamentation that create the optical illusions of lacy texture and geometric shape. Converting the image to black-and-white prior to tinting it minimized the berries' visual impact and shifted aesthetic attention to the woven vines. Image aspect ratio = 7 x 10 (28"x40" @ 300 dp)i
    bittersweet chocolate trellis.jpg
  • From the artist's "American Bittersweet" series, this surface design emerged from tessellating a hexagon, manually assembled by tessellating a triangular photo segment, and then cutting from that matrix a rectangular digital "tile" that would permit orderly mirroring to produce a 4-side matrix. The bittersweet vine's curling, twisting branch and twig structure and berry ornamentation create the crystaline outlines and laciness of this image's six-pointed snowflake patterns. Converting the image to black-and-white facilitated recoloring it to suggest snow's affinity for blue light. Image size = 27" x 31" @ 300 dpi
    bittersweet snowflakes.jpg
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