Sand Striations, 2025

This painting is an ode to the fractal patterns that form in sand striations on beaches, produced by the interplay of the tide and the shoreline. I generated the structure/pattern through a three stage process. First I flowed the upwards reaching red tree forms to create the sand striations. If you look at mountains you can see their ridges chart similar pathways. Then I let water flow down to fill the spaces delineated by the red branches -- this is where I departed slightly from the physics of the beach. Lastly I lathered purple brushstrokes nestled into the spaces between blue branches. The locations of the purple brushstrokes are thereby determined by a multi-layer fractal process.