Art + Design

 

As an artist and designer, I am interested in patterns, the design of life, challenging perception, chaos, the perceived status quo, and how abstraction, obfuscation, and adding imperfection can make something more aesthetically pleasing.

 

I enjoy the juxtaposition of disorder and order. For example, there are compelling patterns found in recursive and fractal patterns - the visual patterns not only found in math, but in nature and the designs of life itself. It is interesting how form and context can challenge perception, and how easily we accommodate and acclimate to what we perceive....and how the new imperfect view can become the new normal. I believe that the imperfectness of something is what makes it special and interesting to visually study. Those parts and/or the imperfect placement/context of those imperfect parts together (the Gestalt) somehow can create something more aesthetically pleasing than the sum of the hypothetical 'perfect' forms in some sort of 'perfect' placement (eg. perfect alignment and spacing). In other words, imperfection and abstraction is what I find compelling in a design and in terms of the philosophy and psychology that surrounds it.