Acrylic on paper, 25 x 33 in. framed.

Orthogonal Correlates is a series of paintings created with a robotic pen plotter. The robot follows instructions produced by a generative algorithm that creates a unique output each time it runs. These paintings comprise a representative sample of the program’s output.

The generative algorithm I designed for this series produces curving forms of various complexity. Each form is made up of hundreds of thin lines. When layered atop each other, they produce moiré interference patterns: complex shades and textures, the emergent properties of shape and color, paint and paper.