Acrylic on paper, 19.5 x 26.5″ framed. Series of sixteen.

Niche Partitioning is a generative art program that directs a robotic pen plotter to produce layered harmonic waveforms, each built from hundreds of oscillating paint strokes.

When the program is initialized, the properties of each waveform – frequency, amplitude, and phase shift – are randomly selected, resulting in a unique structure each time the program is run. These sixteen paintings are a representative sample of the program’s output and a physical manifestation of the algorithms that power it.