WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT?

The whole gist of this design is that you can plan all you want, but due to the quirks of life, well, it doesn't always work out quite as you planned. Sometimes it turns out for the best. I hope when you look at the design you imagine how it would look it I had just turned a card a little more to the left...or maybe right. If you can do that, then you get the point!

WHAT IS MY PROCESS?

I make abstract designs based on layered, square, cut paper compositions.  I cut out shapes that seem to  have the 'right' amount of balance of white positive / negative space. 

I took a tip from the ancient tile designers and added the white outlines so that the colors don't bleed together when printed. The main problem I encountered was the challenge of making a 'good' image almost always result after rotating the layers. There was an awful lot of "...well, what if this..." and "no, how about this..."

The titles I assign to the images are very personal. They're names of the most impactful people, places, or events in my life. The stories are found in the individual item descriptions.

DOES IT REPRESENT SOMETHING?

I shared my work in progress with several people to get their impressions or interpretations. My sister-in-law told me, "well...I guess one thing about abstract art is that it makes you think." She and others told me stories about what they see or feel looking at the design. Here are a few 'tags' that came out of those discussions:

 animation.  abstract.   curiosity. puzzle.  pepsi.  rorschach.  Stella.  square.  tile.  box.  plans.  outline.  border.  container.  space.  dashboard.  scale.   motion.  snapshot.  paper.  collage.  planes.  chance.  choice.  luck.  kaleidoscope.  sperm.  virus.  microscope.  ship.  Escher.  floating.  zero-gravity.  calm.  pong.  rubik.  portal. trigger. mandala. fourth dimension

No it doesn't represent something real. If it represents anything, it represents planned and unplanned consequences.

WHY QUADRIPTYCH?

This is a crazy self-imposed set of rules for the designs.

• The 'quadriptych' aspect is that are two four-sided layers that rotate;  there are 16 individual image results. Four of 16 are unique; the other 12 are variants of those four. 
• Nothing in the design makes there a 'correct' orientation. One image may be turned upside down, or turned on either side, so that means one image has four versions. 
• Besides the individual images, I create combinations containing four images in one piece -- I guess that four-panel style is a true quadriptych.