Harm van den Dorpel
15.7 × 11.8″
Unique edition
"Metaballs ⁱⁱ. Built from a 3D structure made in Cinema 4D; the exported
vector lines were then edited in Illustrator, where I cut openings into the form
— hence the oval void at the lower left and the empty, unfilled stroke at the top
left. The yellow band is a pen replacement made mid-drawing. The wireframe
shell recalls Vladimir Tatlin and Buckminster Fuller — a lineage I take up
directly in Geodesic Dome Patent Drawing (Fig. 14) (2022), an algorithmic
animation of figure 14 of Fuller's 1965 geodesic-dome patent."
Generated through autonomous computational processes and realized as a unique plotter drawing, this work draws on forms found in nature, where intricate structures emerge through simple patterns and rules. The work invites reflection on the parallels between organic growth and computational processes.
