For the last year, I’ve spent countless hours watching my printer draw my work line-by-line, applying ink while constantly resisting the urge to pull the paper and change the spacing between each line drawn. Piezo is inspired by this urge: what if we draw line-by-line like a printer but change the spacing between each drawn line? The movement only happens on the x-axis, where each grid item within a recursive grid gets its own “printhead” to draw. We then put the x-axis coordinates through a sine function, so it moves in both the positive and the negative directions of the grid block. By appointing a separate drawing speed to each grid item, the colors of each grid block are mixed together during the drawing to create gradients and combinations of colors.
