interStella / Quad
The interStella folio comprises sixteen printed editions arranged into four quads, each containing four chromatic variations. It’s kind of a mash up of a number of geometries I’ve been studying, but most obviously it’s an exploration and complication of the maths underlying the early works of American legend Frank Stella. I first saw his beautiful, epic, artworks at MOCA in LA in 1991, and was completely blown away. So it’s been on my mind for a long time to try and unpack some of his thinking and riff on that beautiful style that came out of NYC in the late Sixties. I hope I’ve bought a little fresh thinking and technique to bear too. I’ll leave you to be the judge of that. The digital toolset, as ever, allows you to add layers of complexity, and fine tuning, that perhaps wasn’t always previously possible.