Stephen Luecking
“Cornrow”
Gliceé print, 13" x 13" (framed 17" x 17"), 2008.
Images begin as super ellipses constructed from bezier curves in which the weight and position of the control points are randomized, using a random number generator to induce eccentricity. The eccentric curves are then layered subjected to various improvised Boolean and path edits. The results are not intended to be read as mathematical objects, thus the randomizing and improvising procedures. Rather the goal is to seek out visual tensions implicit in the relationship between the curves and the tondo format, between the wholeness of the circle and the fragmentation in its interior.
“Cob”
Gliceé print, 13" x 13" (framed 17" x 17"), 2008.
Images begin as super ellipses constructed from bezier curves in which the weight and position of the control points are randomized, using a random number generator to induce eccentricity. The eccentric curves are then layered subjected to various improvised Boolean and path edits. The results are not intended to be read as mathematical objects, thus the randomizing and improvising procedures. Rather the goal is to seek out visual tensions implicit in the relationship between the curves and the tondo format, between the wholeness of the circle and the fragmentation in its interior.
Stephen Luecking, Professor of Computer Graphics, School of Computing and digital media, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
"I was trained as a sculptor and have always been fascinated by the process of taking the most abstract of objects, such mathematical entities, and giving them the most concrete form, such as in cast iron. Such an act is to me the acme of creation: thought given directly to form. The fact that this is being effected by an imperfect creature into an imperfect world makes it all the more fascinating – especially now that even the nature of these imperfections are succumbing to mathematical descriptions. The current images are spun off from my sculpture which derive from super-spheres and ellipsoids."
sluecking@gmail.com