Aiman Soliman
My graphic artwork features tessellations, symmetry, spatial
ambiguity, and visual illusions. I have been experimenting with
different ways to integrate the mathematical content of my art with
its pictorial composition. My inspiration comes from western classical
musicians who relied on mathematics to write their compositions as in
counterpoint. Yet their mathematically constructed music is capable of
evoking thought and emotion.
Physical Chemist Wilhelm Ostwald published a theory in 1922 to
describe the harmony resulting from combing linear forms with
different symmetries. Similarly, I combined multiple tessellations
by a series of plane transformations (rotation, translation, and
reflection). I overlayed the outer tessellations of each of the
two Gothic windows in the middle panel area. For example, the
second row from the bottom in the right window generates a famous
Alhambra tiling by combining a tessellation with a copy of itself
which was mirror reflected and then shifted a half unit in both x
and y directions. I generated colors using transparent red,
yellow, and blue. A detailed image and an interferogram are
available in the provided link.