Epigenesis: The Growth of Form

Created as a work of art in its own right, this piece models, on a scale of 1:6, the form generating procedures employed for a pen plotted mural composed of eleven 3 foot by 6 foot units. Both this model and the finished work are pen and brush plotted drawings. The full scale project, framed with stained oak paneling, occupies a space measuring 9 feet by 40 feet at the University of St. Thomas� Science and Engineering Center (St. Paul, Minnesota, 1997). This version, an algorithmic clone of the original model, was completed in January, 2000

The brush strokes and gold roundels, identify the visual theme permeating eleven improvisations. Form-generating procedures, created by the artist, employed this linear form for growing this suite of eleven graphic harmonies. Executed with a multi-pen plotter, clusters of pen strokes mirror themselves with improvisations of form based on the same information that controlled the very first line in the suite. The central geometrical figure, drawing on this visual theme, reveals one more morphological improvisation. The eleven unit harmonic suite displays the growth of form and, by analogy to the biological term, may be viewed as epigenesis.

See Verostko's article on Epigenetic paining

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