Florilegium

This piece was inspired by a beautiful piece of art I saw at a recent exhibition by Jacques Nimki, from which I’ve borrowed the title, and the sense of growing, arborescent plant-like structures - rampantly disordered but also harmonious. The curves in the piece are created by connecting points on random walks, where the degree of randomness in step angle and radius are randomly determined for each individual path. These walks all originate from a small number of points within the piece, creating the overall massing of the piece. A hobby of mine is microscopy, and to me this piece is strongly reminiscent of microscopic algae, a tiny garden for the rotifers and tardigrades.