These compositions are made from 3 tiles:
Filling the plane with these tiles gives a periodic pattern.
Shuffling the tiles breaks up the obvious repetition.
Giving each tile a random rotation (of 60° increments) introduces more variation.
If the line segments and arcs making up the tiles are made heavier and the background hexagons removed, we get shapes:
These shapes can then be filled with patterns from shuffled and rotated tiles. The compositions here allude to the idea of self-similarity, that the line segments and arcs of each tile could be tiled with smaller copies, ad infinitum.
The final pieces are each 30″ x 30″ paintings on wood panels with multiple levels.
This set of artworks is permanently installed in the Math Exchange at Virginia Commonwealth University’s STEM Building.