When Geometry Softens

If you’re arriving here first, this work sits inside an ongoing investigation into recognition, fragmentation, and reconstruction. An earlier post explains how faces are rebuilt through grids and halftone logic geometric shapes combining to form a likeness at a distance. It’s worth starting there if this doesn’t make complete sense.

Right now, this post is about what just happened.

Starting With Structure

The process began strictly.

Squares.
Circles.
Triangles.

Hard edges. Clear systems. Controlled behaviour.

There was something reassuring about that clarity. Geometry feels stable. Predictable. Rational. We are, after all, working on a grid.

And at first, that felt right. It got the project moving. The concept that existed in my head was realised physically via the digital.

But the more we played adjusting densities, refining the grid, designing how shapes sat against each other something else started to happen.

The system began to loosen.

The Unexpected Organic

We had built in small elements of organic variation almost by accident slight distortions, irregular spacing, softer rotations.

At first I resisted it. It felt like the work was slipping away from its logic.

But after time, and iteration after iteration, something started to emerge.

The faces felt more alive.

Less constructed.
More remembered.

The geometric versions feel architectural.
The organic versions feel human.

Not perfect.
Not always successful.

Some iterations work.
Some fall apart completely.

But that tension between control and release is where the work currently sits.

Sketchbook, Not Showcase

It’s important to say: this body of work is still in its infancy.

The digital outputs are not the end goal. They are stepping stones. Tests. Conversations with the system.

Ultimately the ambition has always been to bring this into the physical world. The screen is a workshop, not a gallery.

This website acts as a sketchbook a place to play openly and report on progress. Not everything here is resolved. Some pieces may never move forward. Others may quietly form the foundation of something larger.

What Happens Next?

If the proposal moves forward, these organic faces may evolve further within that context potentially becoming part of a larger public piece.

If it doesn’t, they may still become a small, independent body of work.

Either way, something in this project has shifted.

The work no longer sits purely in geometry.

It sits somewhere between structure and softness.

Designed, but breathing.

Still assembling.