Bridges 2026 Exhibition of Mathematical Art, Craft, and Design
Tiffany C. Inglis
Artists
Tiffany C. Inglis
Computer Scientist
D2L
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Statement
I love exploring the intersection of my interests, from mathematics, database engineering, to fibre arts, music, and digital art. While I haven't figured out how to make SQL art quite yet, this year I managed to combine math with knitting/crocheting and music.
Artworks

Recursive Bag Charms
27.0 x 45.0 x 28.0 cm
Wool yarn, cotton yarn, polyfill, plastic beads
2026
Bag charms rose to the height of popularity in 2025, with many adorning their handbags with trinkets and dolls. Inspired by this trend, I created a set of dolls, each one being the bag charm of its larger counterpart. It was mathematically challenging figuring out how to downsize crochet patterns and how to re-interpret knitting charts at lower pixel resolutions.
The entire creation was inspired by various designs, scaled and modified to fit the project:
- Doll SMILLA: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/doll-smilla
- Pull Vague Sweater: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/pull-vague
- Sinister Cat Hat: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-sinister-cat-hat

Flower of Fifths
35.0 x 35.0 x 4.0 cm
Digital print
2025
The Circle of Fifths is a popular mnemonic device used by musicians to memorize key signatures. Typically, it's a circle divided into 12 wedges--labelled with letters, sharps and flats--not particularly pleasant to look at. In this artwork, 12 colours are used to represent the 12 semitones in an octave. Each key signature can then be denoted as a symmetric heptagon by joining the relevant notes. When arranged in the order given by the Circle of Fifths, a wonderful symmetry is observed. A single semitone shift converts one key to the next key, and after 12 such operations, we are back to where we started.