Paul Brown employs relatively simple linear forms in the ‘tiles’ that make up this drawing. The visually intense patterns are produced by the relationships between each tile and its neighbours. Brown’s work also explores ‘cellular automata’, simple systems that can evolve and propagate themselves. The complex weaving and knotting of lines in this computer-generated plotter drawing is reminiscent of Islamic patterning. The protruding knots lend the drawing an illusion of depth. Although the work has a sense of repetition and rhythm, it is not symmetrical.
