Something New, Perhaps

Here's a picture of the latest concept I've been working on, made of fine art paper and steel wire.
The paper is printed with a color sorted image and then folded into polyhedra. And I added thin wire filigree to the armatures to fuzz them out a little. The idea was to create a free flowing network of lines to offset the mathematical organization in the polyhedra. This is really more of a hanging sculpture than a mobile because the paper pieces are not designed to catch the wind.

Here are some closeups:

And this is the image that is printed on the paper pieces, made from a closeup shot of sedum flowers:

I've realized that, in bringing images into my sculptures, I don't care so much what the images depict because I'm treating them simply as carriers of visual information. In other words, I'm interested in images as data, which is why I tend to fragment them and pick them apart with analytic techniques. I guess I just love complexity or, more precisely, finding elegance in complexity (for some cool examples, see Visual Complexity), and it turns out there is more science in my art than I was previously willing to admit.