Spring had been in the air in southeast Michigan for a few days before winter came back like he forgot something. Still, the spring cleaning bug had bitten me, and that extended to this blog. A few months ago I noticed that my site name wasn't displaying properly on desktop. Instead of saying warpedfrost at …
Category: Design
Quatrefoil Patterns from Scratch
I became interested in Arabic geometry and zilij around the same time that the "Moroccan trellis" type of quatrefoil pattern started showing up everywhere. I've got a camera case, computer screen wipes box, and even a kitty litter mat with variations of this pattern on them. I'm both delighted by the availability of this design, …
exist†trace — Spiral Daisakusen
Perhaps the only thing I like more than art is making fun of art. It comes from a place of love. ♡ When I was looking for skeleton keys for a piece (which ended up in this exhibit </shameless plug>), I bought a pack of keys with two designs. One had a crown, and the …
Work in Progress: The Alchemist
I started off the term in my Collage & Assemblage class by telling my professor straight out that I don't like my 3D pieces so I wanted to make something functional, specifically a bookcase to go into a particular corner of my room. He laughed but let me do it. Of course, I still had …
Work In Progress: Starfire Vigil
This Winter term I'm taking a class about indigenous, non-Western art and how to incorporate it into the K-12 art curriculum. Before the university's spring break, we talked about Islamic geometry and were given the task of creating a design with at least four levels of geometric patterns, then repeating the resulting design in a …
Warped Frost 