Intestinal Tesselation, 2025

This painting was initially inspired by the crack patterns formed in desiccating mud. It also is evocative of intestines, trees, and veins. Here we see a hexagon, possibly one of many in a grid, with cracks (or veins) growing inwards. It is a but an individual, one of many, and it is also intricately complex and unique, and it is entwined with its surroundings — just like each of us in this vast wide world. You might also notice that the red veins/cracks are one continuous entity, just as the space we all exist in is. The orange hexagonal form is simply one shape parameterized by the vast vein network. We can think of ourselves as separate individuals (the orange spaces), or as negatives formed by the continuously connected cosmos (the red veins).