More Scary Patterns
I had previously shared a few pattern animations (here, here, and here) from 2023 that felt a bit unsettling. Here, I am presenting the last four remaining in the archive of Grasshopper 1.0. To me, they feel a bit eerie, and I don’t even know why I made them this way. But I am sharing them anyway, thinking that maybe they could be useful to someone for a completely different, cheerful purpose. It is possible, but difficult, to create these patterns using Grasshopper’s native components, but I clearly managed to generate them easily by using Parakeet. Actually, I prefer to build and understand these types of geometric constructions myself, but it’s clear that I wanted to reach a fast result back then.
Lacan’s Love
Another sort of ADHD situation, I suppose. I understand from this that these old pattern works were an amateur emotional expression of those times. Actually, it is easier to do this with music, but I tried to express it through flowing images and these patterns. A constant sense of inadequacy can be observed throughout. Jacques Lacan has a famous definition of love (which I quoted from Ulus Baker). According to this, love is trying to give what you do not have. The resonance of this statement feels very good. What we call “diversity” in these pathetic pattern animations is actually nothing more than struggling within a lack of diversity.
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