A lot of my work on fxhash uses geometric forms and hard-edge colour. The geometries are precise and the colours bold. I love this sort of work. Using code as a creative medium tends to push you down this path as digital media excels at precision and detail.

I live in a rural location in northern NSW in Australia. It is a semi-tropical climate with lush green hills and green forests. I'm surrounded by trees, cows look over the fence and kangaroos occasionally graze on the grass in the yard. With all this nature around me, I wanted to see how code could be used to create some of the organic forms that are everywhere in nature.

So I started experimenting with organic shapes in some of my projects.

Ruminations was released in April 2022. It is all about those thoughts and feelings that keep you awake at 3am. I was trying to evoke a mood or feeling and the irregular shapes and lines seemed to be a more natural fit than hard-edge geometry.

Materiality was released in the same month, which again uses irregular polygons and different textures to create geometric arrangements. As the name suggests, I was exploring the affordances of digital media when working with organic shapes.

I had been cutting down some palm trees in the garden and loved the texture of the trunk cross-sections. These were the inspiration for creating a organic shapes using code.

In June we had #tezosartweek, so I created a small collection called Organica on Objkt.com. This is where I first used these organic, trunk-like shapes.

These shapes were crying out to have their own fxhash project. But how best to use them?

I played around with may different arrangements. I liked the feel of Japanese woodblock prints, so experimented with this aesthetic for a while.

Finally deciding that less is more, I focused on the original shapes and let them be the primary focus.

Yashinoki (palm tree in Japanese) was finally born.

I hope you like them as much as I do!