Suspended Repetition
I used to smoke, and I liked it. At work, I’d step outside, light up and sit focused on the smoke rising from the end of my cigarette. Smoking was a time that allowed for a bit of quiet contemplation.
While watching the smoke, I noticed recurring shapes and patterns and I made a mental connection to what I do during my working hours. I create user interfaces for webapplications. As an interface designer, I solve common design problems using recurring solutions known as design patterns--and I see repeating designs in almost everything I look at.
For my project, "Suspended Repetition," I have not only captured the meditative quality of smoke, showing it’s endless variety of incarnations, I have also created repeating designs and patterns that speak to the complexity and variable quality of smoke itself. I still miss smoking and watching those ethereal swirling shapes as brush strokes on an open air canvas morphing into unique complex entities, fleeting as snowflakes.
