As you scroll through this page you will find links to some of my “iterative density” pieces which are hand-drawn in a digital format. A process that I began to developed over my COVID year in graduate school and which has just recently (as of holiday 2022) matured enough to where I felt it worth sharing. These pieces are usually quite large and can be comfortably expanded to 80-120 inches on the diagonal depending on the piece. You can learn more about each individual piece by clicking the button with the name of the piece. I have included a bit more about my iterative density drawings in general at the bottom of this page as well. I recommend viewing this page and those linked here on a desktop if available to better see the details in each image.
These iterative density drawings take their inspiration from iterated function systems and multifractal analysis where we usually break apart a ‘fractal’ set into disjoint pieces according to some parameter. In these pieces this results in what I refer to as the color isolates which partitions the piece into each individual color used. In the process of construction, each color is added to the drawing based on some set of ‘rules’. Although these ‘rules’ tend to incur deformations the longer I spend on them, adding each color one by one according to its deforming rule usually results in the color isolates, and combinations of those isolates having a distinct feel from the overall piece. As the colors are added they occupy denser and denser portions of the canvas resulting in a quite full canvas and, due to the piece’s usual size, this causes local views of the piece to be a joy to look at as well. There are also global properties to these drawings. For instance, to give these iterative density pieces more global structure I usually play with symmetry and other drawing basics independent of which color isolate I am completing.