God’s Appointment Book for 11.27.2009
Here’s a painting I did using the “golden rectangle” built on the Fibonacci sequence. The Fibonacci sequence starts with 1 and adds to it the preceding number, i.e.: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21 etc. If you make a rectangle with these proportions, (13 x 21, say) it’s a “golden rectangle”. You can snip a square off the end of the rectangle and what remains is another golden rectangle. Snip another square, and a golden rectangle still remains.
I chose a different target color for each square, each square using a 2,3,5,8 color proportion (30 cyan, 80 red, 20 yellow, 50 black, is the target for the largest 13 x 13 square on the left. Upper right is 50,20,80,30; lower right is 80,30,20,50). Each color was subjected to a random number sequence, i.e. to get 50% red, 50% of the masking squares were removed randomly.
The pattern eventually spirals down to the white square in the lower right.
Each block displays a distinct color identity, even though the code for each color is sifted through randomness. The smaller blocks (the 3 x 3- and 2 x 2- block units in the lower middle don’t have enough data variety to paint their true ‘identities’. It looks like the blue 5 x 5 block is as small as I can get and still have enough cells to display the range that the randomness inflicts.
Here’s a diagram of the color targets for the painting. It’s interesting to me to see how the randomness fragments these targets, yet their color identity still comes through.
