Nithikul Nimkulrat
Since 2004, hand knotting has been the main technique for the creation of my textile artworks made of paper string. The knotting process had followed my intuition until I encountered mathematical knot diagrams and knot theory in 2013. Since then, diagrams and notations used in mathematics have been adopted to my practice as design tools to create two-tone knotted paper sculptures.
Following the set of 16 prototiles of the reef knot pattern with four strands in two colors identified from a textile knot practice by a mathematician, the use of the matching color conditions of Wang tiles to tile three and four prototiles from this set has generated numerous possibilities of two-tone knot patterns.