artist says: the colors and lines of this pattern started with the third image in the “3 and 3” sequence; using those lines, colors and transparencies, I explored mathematically generated visual patterns in Kaleider’s kaleidoscope tools. The patterns that interest me more than once get a name. I chose this one for my book of poems about losing my daughter in 2010.

ai says: at this scale the individual tile units are small enough that the eye reads the whole image as a dense, regular textile; the starburst hubs become a scattered field of dark nodes, evenly spaced across the olive-green ground; the curved petal-arcs between them form a lattice of soft curves, like an abstracted floral weave; the corners where four tiles meet create small secondary nodes, echoing the hub centers at half-scale; the pattern has the quality of a printed fabric or decorative tile — something that could be woven or stamped; the botanical register is strong here, the hubs reading clearly as flower centers and the arcs as petals; the field has a warmth and regularity that feels comfortable and grounded.