Genuary 17

A repeating pattern composed of ladder shapes on a black background. The ladders are yellow, light blue and red. Some ladders are rotated, others are missing to disrupt the pattern.

Wallpaper group.

I like to disrupt repeated patterns using probability. In this arrangement, for example, the smaller blue ladder is sometimes replaced with an even smaller yellow one. The image still functions as an unbroken tiling with some variations emerging in the wallpaper.

63 Broken Ladders

I mailed my postcards for this year’s plotter postcard exchange. The design this year is “63 of 255 possible broken 8 rung ladders (in order) + 1 complete 8 rung ladder.” I plotted the cards using an Axidraw SE/A3 with a Staedtler pigment liner for the black lines and a Sakura Pigma PN for the red.