The Screamin' Squirrel

Photo copyright screaming squirrel designs, 2023.

Cirque de Perles

Dark Matter This is a total celebration of shape and texture. Matte pencil-lead gray and Hex-cut AB transparent Olive. Because there is so little color but so much depth, I shot stereoscopic pairs. The idea here is to cross your eyes, then relax them until the image focuses in the center to render a 3Dimensional image. The top pair form a crossed-image which suits most people, but I know some people for whom it works better with a parallel pair. The bottom Image is a parallel stereoscopic pair.

This began with the origami of Henk van der Vorst. After designing the beadwork I played with them like building blocks and discovered that they fit together yielding this compound piece. I don't know if this is a proper tessellation, but it is a tidy mosaic of positive and negative space. Had I not modified the outer hub pieces, this would be infinitely expandable... the limitation being beads and patience.

26 Dec, 2021

Tarbert Crab-pot Christmas Tree, 2021. Photo by Jack Stravaiger

Tarbert Crab-pot Christmas Tree, 2021. Photo by Jack Stravaiger

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