Repeating Fractal Design
The patterns that arise in this collage are inspired by the microcosms seen in many environments, and layered to give the impression of seeing through the organic and inorganic matter that the images represent.
Fractal Droplet Collage I, 2017. Tyler A Deem
By composing these layers one atop another, and with stenciled patterns cut to reveal succeeding imagery that have the same repeating stencil at a smaller scale, there is a depth developed that almost mimicks the zooming in on the structure of matter itself. The eye attempts to identify what is texture from what is pattern, what is drawing from what is imagery, but there is a harmony in the repeating shapes and alternating dark and light layers that hold the collage's composition.
This is the first of at least two collages with the same fractal design (the pattern of droplets that are cut out) in attempt to capture a sense of overwhelming complexity that we see around us, by also suggesting an over-arching structure or sensible pattern that laces it together.
