Geometry is a form of intelligence
This body of work takes inspiration from a visit to the Shipibo tribe in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. This tribe translate their traditional songs into colourful geometric tapestries. This led Tanya to cymatics; the science that studies the geometric patterns created by sound vibrations.
This is the flow of patterns is generated from playing a Shipibo song through my cymatic experiment. Here we can see a distinct similarity between the pattern of a Shipibo song and a crop circle pattern. Large embroideries of crop circles on flax echo cymatic patterns, reminding us how geometry can take us to a place that our intellect cannot.
Large embroideries of crop circles on flax echo cymatic patterns, reminding us how geometry can take us to a place that our intellect cannot.
Left- Marosa, cymatic pattern of Shipibo shamans song
Right- drawn threadwork embroidery of Alton barnes Cropcircle on flax,
Woodborough, crop circle on flax, 1200 x 1200 mm with light box
Hackpen-Hill, drawn- threadwork embroidery and detail of crop circle on flax with light box, 1200 x 1200 mm, The Courthouse Gallery, 2018