Statement on Tessellation

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Art has always balanced the visceral and the intellectual. What changes through time is that balance — from the sensory immediacy of early art to the analytic purity of modern abstraction.

 

My Tessellation series draws on origami tessellations — geometric patterns folded from a single, uncut sheet of paper — as both structure and metaphor. Through precise sequences of pleats and twists, a flat surface transforms into a rhythmic grid of repeated forms. Within these folded patterns, I find echoes of natural forms and human-made rhythms, transforming them into paintings where intellect meets intuition.

 

Why paint on tessellations? Because art is nothing without rules. Rules are nothing but restrictions, and it is precisely those restrictions that demand creativity from the artist. The discipline of working with a tessellated surface — born from the constraint of a single sheet, folded without cutting — compels me to search for freedom within form, and complexity within order.

 

Rather than reducing nature to geometry, I begin with geometry itself — using abstraction as a way to reconstruct the sensations of the natural world. Through color, pattern, and rhythm, I aim to let structure unfold into movement, atmosphere, and quiet emotion — a space where the intellectual and the visceral coexist. The final product becomes more than the sum of its parts.