Anemone

Lumen & Logic

A radial filament burst erupting from a cellular heart, reproduced from a reference painting. Hundreds of hair-thin, pale strands fan out from just inside a central disc toward the corners — each bending with a steady curl that grows downstream and shivering with a faint wave, tapering from a soft root to a wispy tip. The strands are drawn additively so where they overlap they glow white-hot, like the pappus of a dandelion clock or the tentacles of a sea anemone. At the centre, a dense organic mosaic of jittered polygon cells — packed on a hex lattice and clipped to a ragged disc — forms a scaly, jewel-toned seed-head of greens, teals, blues, reds and gold, deepening toward its core and freckled with tiny gold seed-dots. The whole sits on a hand-mottled earthy ground dusted with fine gold glitter. Deterministic from a seed, defaults to the Portrait canvas.

Medium

Generative algorithm, archival pigment print

Dimensions

60 × 90 cm