Brendan Dawes

WORDS BY BRENDAN DAWES

At the core of my work is creating forms from often simple components. Whilst these parts are seemingly ordinary; the power comes from when you combine them in hopefully interesting ways.

On the far left is a simple straight line. Using a minor system I made, I then added some noise to that line, though keeping the top and the bottom the same as before. It’s important for me to have this fine-grain control rather than just allowing chaos to take over.

There’s something interesting there, but I think it becomes something else when I make multiple copies of that line whilst adding some rotation with each copy. Now it seems to have volume. Maybe there are things to explore down this route…