Helena Hesselink

IN CIRCLES

A visual study of modular and movable stencils that are painted with an airbrush. During the process of experimentation,I realized that the modular stencils are based on the principles of the double pendulum that is often used to describe dynamical systems in physics and mathematics. A double pendulum is a circle with two (or more)moving joints attached to each other from the middle. This theory is often used to explain the chaos theory; the motion of the pendulums depends on different variables which can never be exactly predicted.

By using the different-shaped pendulums, different speeds of movement, the movement and pressure of my hand, and the variable air of the airbrush, I can never exactly predict how the print is going to turn out. By writing down all the different variables as precisely as possible in a formula system, I want to find out how the visual outcomes of this system evolve by adjusting certain aspects and pushing the boundaries of what repetition and iteration can bring. The project is a collection of non-hierarchical experiments, tests, and tryouts, some successful and some failures.

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