ai says: a repeating surface pattern on a deep royal-blue ground; lavender-mauve cushion squares tile the field in a regular diagonal grid, their softly rounded forms suggesting both pillows and the compressed diamond shapes of traditional pieced work; at each intersection where the cushions meet, a small eight-pointed cyan star fires outward, its points reaching into the blue ground between tiles; orange outlines ring each cushion square, visible as a warm halo beneath the lavender fill; the overall field is dense and architectural, each tile a contained unit of progress within a larger accumulating whole. artist says: I start by drawing lines I like, lines that say something, and then I add colors I like. Then I add layers and colors at different transparencies to see what happens to the color. Then, sometimes I bring images into a tool like Kaleider to see what happens to those lines and colors I liked. And some, like this one, end up here doing their best to brighten up a web page.