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More Ceramics and Patterns

So here are some more ceramic paintings I have done. Im working on some plates I wish to commercialise.

Nae patience......

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PATTERNS

Here are some patterns I made for the M&A project, but i have started a pattern book so I can archive how they develop - At some point I would like to use them on ceramics/fabric/more engravings.

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TESSELLATION WORKSHOP: Round 1, year 9, 210 students

On the 7th of October 2011 it was Ada Lovelace day at Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls.

ADA LOVELACE, the 'Enchantress of Numbers' worked with Charles Babbage, categorically speaking she was the first computer programmer ever and she was a woman (it is debated that she was in fact the first theoretical computer scientist as opposed to a programmer).

This was the first a series of workshops I am co-running with community artist Darcey Williamson which aim to encourage creative practice and thought in schools, emphasising the use of maths and science in art, design and music and creative collaborative practice and thought in science. The workshops demonstrate the value of science, maths and creative thinking across disciplines and how they feed into each other in many vocations. The workshop took place in the school hall, with all 210 surprisingly responsive year 9 students. They interpreted the pattern making maths task really well and we were frankly amazed with the patterns produced by the students. And with their seeminly nonchalant genius. We talked about tessellation in nature, design, art, architecture and engineering pointing their attention to the fine work of Olafur Eliasson among others and to last (school) year's STEMNET project 'Dome Build' with 2010-2011's year 10s. We wanted to convince the students that maths and geometry were beautiful, communicative and fun. So the workshop incorporated a geometry lesson about WHY it is impossible to tessellate a regular pentagon (or any other regular polygon with any MORE THAN 6 sides), in a regular way, on a plane (on a 2D surface).

N/B: A regular tessellation is a tessellation made up of the same shape- like a bee hive is made of hexagons.

Here is a hint: A circle on a plane measures 360 degrees......Think of interior angles.

IRREGULAR TESSELLATION

REGULAR TESSELLATION

http://www.olafureliasson.net/index.html


Façade for Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre, 2011 © Portus ehf, Olafur Eliasson, and Henning Larsen Architects via//// http://www.olafureliasson.net/index.html

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PUFFIN: Alice in Wonderland

Im working on something to enter in a book cover competition ran by Puffin children's books. I don't know if many of the things I draw would make a very young human feel entirely comfortable, so I'll have to interview the offspring of some of my spawning friends to find out. Hence for the time being I have decided to work on a pattern. Similar to the ones I did last year here: http://thejenistempire.blogspot.com/2009/01/isometric-paper.html

The use of (anti)logic and nonsense in Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (or should I say Charles Lutwidge Dodgson?) originate from a pack of cards, while the tale Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There relates to nonsense within a game of chess. This is what I have tried to draw attention too so far. The patterns are all very different to what I am more partial to producing but are very interesting to make as they behave as a means to communicate and do so using simple, instant imagery. They hold direct universal meanings relating to pattern, memory and logic and as far as I am concerned to absurd applications of logic in absurd situations. I have started working on some characters on paper but need to ask a child if they find them acceptable or if they are any good.

I assumed that making patterns through my computer would make pattern making a little easier and more enjoyable. It was.

Here are some of the things I have materialised via my table top ordinating processing book device. They remind me a little bit of fractals because of the shape within a shape within a shape etc.

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Probability stuffs

With very much huge thanks to Adam Chappell for massive techno-logicical support on the animation, which I was baffelywozzeled with. THANKYOU VERY MUCH SIR! Today was an interesting day. But I want to make some card versions of this. So that can be hand held and shuffled manually by people. Here are my 9 (not 12-20 unfortunately due to time) pictures that connect up in any order, they took along time. Above is a random stitch-up example of what freeze frame of the animation MIGHT look like (click for bigger). Ill try get the animation on line.