Jerome St Claire – Circle Packing Ishihara Spills
Thursday, 19 February 2009
Drawing #012 – Jerome St Claires
Jerome St Claires’s carefully hand drawn agglomerations of various sized circles immediately remind Dataisnature of the famous Ishihara colour blind tests, where numbers were concealed (at least to those disposed to Protanopia or Deuteranopia) in a densely packed group of coloured dots. Of course, there are no numbers in these monochromatic drawings to find, but the eye brain partnership attends to duties of pattern recognition regardless. In these liquid streams, reminiscent of bubbles in spilled ink, we find figures, plant shapes and biological life forms. The later chimeras arise from ribbons of dots enforced by the organic cellular arrangents to great effect in almost computational precision. For the full effect be sure to view the drawings at the largest size.
