Post-Future Digital Alien Tapestry Core

A series of digital artworks inspired by woven tapestries, digital aesthetics, and fractal-esque repeating patterns found in math, science, and nature. This series represents a search for Truth in the intersection of math, science, and nature. My fascination with this "Truth" began with a question that came to mind while observing a sunset over the Mississippi River in New Orleans: "what is the scientific explanation for why humans universally find sunsets so beautiful and enthralling?" This question led me down a rabbit hole, searching for instances where art, beauty, and science coincide -- this search eventually led me to study Benoit Mandelbrot's writings on the fractal nature of geometry and Leonardo DaVinci's lifelong obsession with the intersection of science, physics, nature, art, and beauty. Process: The textures in each work are created by crushing individual layers until repetitive patterns emerge as if unearthing them from below the surface of the screen. Well-known fractal shapes such as Sierpinski triangles are revealed through intentional degradation, sparking more curiosity about how and why these patterns emerge both in nature and in the computational crushing of a digital canvas. Textures are then woven together layer by layer, taking ingredients that both nature and machine provide and weaving them together with a human touch like a tapestry, creating an interplay between order and chaos that mirrors the natural world and the universe. fallen ‘24