Geometric Patterns
Photograph by John Kozlowski
Eleventh and Fourteenth Gifts
The Eleventh Gift, the pricking of pinholes on grids, transformed planes to lines to points. In more elaborate forms, pinholes became perforated openings in materials to produce abstract patterns. The perforated boards in the clerestory windows of winged seeds in motion mimic the basic tenant of allowing light to shine through openings to create patterns and designs.
Pre-slit paper weaving mattes of the Fourteenth Gift serve as grids for creating abstract patterns consisting of squares, rectangles and triangles, like on the colored rendering of the SAMARA rug. These materials turned the whole concept of the grid inside out by requiring the weaving or construction of paper strips into rows and columns.
The elaboration of art forms influenced Mr. Wright's take-off designs of the SAMARA motif. Combinations of geometric figures manipulated on grids using perforated materials and weaving mattes provided a systematic way to create beauty forms.