During a month-long challenge in late 2019, I explored the concept of taking a simple shape or recognizable group of black-and-white shapes and repeating them, over and over, stretching them, shrinking them, colliding them together. This repeats until the final result is a black mass that reeks of mutation and uncontrolled growth.
I studied images of religious buildings and manuscripts to better absorb the notion that people could control their lives to creating something so repetitive and intrinsic that it spreads throughout their consciousness like a virus. I also studied pictures of fungi and diseases overtaking lifeforms, to capture the insidious creeping feeling these forces symbolize.
In the future, I plan to recreate these designs in TouchDesigner to generate even larger masses of form and structure, in an attempt to test the amount of information a human mind is willing to take in at once.
