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Another dig­i­tal col­lage, part of a page done for a ‘zine I put together for Expozine 2011. You can see the rest of the PDF here.

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Named after my mother-in-law’s ini­tial reac­tion (“Oh! It’s an anemone!”), this illus­tra­tion depicts a girl whose dress is indis­tinct from the body of a jel­ly­fish, while her hair trans­forms into a school of fish. No, it’s not a mutant — this draw­ing is inspired by my fas­ci­na­tion with pat­terns and the ever-changing flows that exist in nature, of which humans are nei­ther above nor out­side of. We are wholly a part of nature’s mirac­u­lous continuum.

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Inspired by a quote from one of my books on Ayurveda, the ancient sys­tem of Indian med­i­cine, nutri­tion and well-being:

Evo­lu­tion is the man­i­fes­ta­tion of latent poten­tials… another way of say­ing this is that con­scious­ness exists in all forms of life. It is the very basis of cre­ation, the power of evo­lu­tion. Life, cre­ation and evo­lu­tion are the stages in the unfold­ment of con­scious­ness. There is noth­ing in exis­tence that is unfeel­ing, noth­ing that is pro­fane or unspir­i­tual, noth­ing with­out a unique value in the cos­mos. Life is rela­tional, inter­de­pen­dent, inter­con­nec­tive, a sys­tem of mutual nour­ish­ment and care, not only phys­i­cally, but also psy­cho­log­i­cally and spiritually. [..]

Life forms are sta­tions for the recep­tion and trans­mis­sion of forces, through which all are nourished. [..]

The earth, like a giant recep­tor or radio-station, inhales and exhales stel­lar and cos­mic forces, the absorbed essence of which grows and unfolds as life. These forces are not all mate­r­ial, but include sub­tle ener­gies of an occult or spir­i­tual nature. Plants trans­mit the vital-emotional impulses, the life-force that is hid­den in light. That is the gift, the grace, the power of plants…They offer us not only their nutri­tive value but the very light and love from the stars, from the cos­mos whose mes­sen­gers they are. They bring to us the uni­ver­sal light so that we can enter the uni­ver­sal life.

– Dr. Vas­ant Lad, Dr. David Fraw­ley, Yoga of Herbs: An Ayurvedic Guide to Herbal Medicine

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Visual mus­ings on the math­e­mat­i­cal and exis­ten­tial mat­ter of infin­ity: like love, it’s in the eye of the beholder. Table of dia­grams on right from Don Hatch’s amaz­ing web­site on tes­sel­la­tions and other sundries.

Schlafli and Wythoff sym­bols, enough equa­tions to boon­dog­gle the mind. Wikipedia entry on uni­form tilings on the hyper­bolic plane:

There are an infi­nite num­ber of uni­form tilings on the hyper­bolic plane based on the (p q r) where 1/p + 1/q + 1/r < 1, where p,q,r are each orders of reflec­tion sym­me­try at three points of the fun­da­men­tal domain tri­an­gle – the sym­me­try group is a hyper­bolic tri­an­gle group.

In Hatch’s dia­grams on the right, you can see the var­i­ous tes­sel­la­tions (as depicted on a Poin­caré disk sur­face) trans­form as dif­fer­ent val­ues are inputted — up to infin­ity in the bot­tom right corner.

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Another ink illus­tra­tion in the “Know Hope” series and inspired by my urban explo­rations  of Mon­tréal. At the inter­sec­tion of Vil­leneuve and Avenue du Parc stand two car­pet stores fac­ing each other (one has since gone out of busi­ness — though Parc Avenue has no less than half a dozen of car­pet stores within these few blocks). Sump­tu­ous car­pets hang tall in their grand win­dows, and in the imag­in­ings of my mind’s eye I saw the car­pets burst free, trans­form­ing into Escher-like tessellations.

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This is a tri-fold design com­pe­ti­tion poster done for a pro­posed project located at 47–50 West Street in down­town New York City, show­ing site plan, floor plans, build­ing sec­tion, facade ren­der­ing, win­dow details and elevations.

(with Fox & Fowle Architects)