Jean-Marc Castera

Artist
Freelance
Paris, France

Artist with mathematical background.
In everything, my interest does not goes to the thing itself, but to its relationships with other things.

Dancing birds
Dancing birds
60 x 60 cm
mixed
2015

The first level is a non periodic pattern with 7-fold local symmetry, made of 3 rhombuses and an inflation process.
Behind is a new pattern in the traditional style that Moroccan craftsmen call "Pattern that drives you crazy".
So, removing a white rhombus gives way to a colored feather.
Each bird is made of 12 feathers (3 medium and 9 small rhombuses).