Rashmi Sunder-Raj

In 2019, I was playing around with how Cairo tilings can result from overlapping groupings of elongated hexagons. I noticed that the appearance resembled chicken wire, resulting in a Twitter discussion in which Tom Ruen showed me a drawing of overlapping chicken wire. I then did some drawing and experimenting with wire in order to investigate interwoven “chicken wire”. I noticed that, in some cases, it could be created by wrapping wire through a square grid. The wire width and the number of wraps could be varied to change the angles in the irregular pentagonal areas. “Twisted” explores how a Cairo tiling can be morphed by changing the number of wraps. I have chosen to draw it using stylized folded strips rather than coiled wire.

This is a reversed version of “Twisted”. The chicken wire parts with more twists are towards the corners, leaving the central portion untwisted.