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This blog post is dedicated to my awesome wife! She told me not to blog about her, so I won't but i am going to dedicate this post to her.

Down below you will find a link to a website I came across some months ago while searching for conceptual imagery online! This website introduced me to the digital practice of processing. Processing is the practice of creating computer code to develop graphic imagery that is always different every time the script is restarted. I am not an expert at processing, and at present, I do not believe i have to time or patience to be. I am content with sharing this idea of processing with you all, and discussing the architectural and spatial concepts within the windows of processing.

What first intrigued me about processing was the additive nature of how they are created. (Once you see the link below you will understand this blog post better). This additive method of creating excites me because I feel that it reminds of of how I like to approach a new drawing or project. The processing modules in the link below all start out with a simple line or shape and build to what I believe is an infinite amount of layers and complexity. They really only reset when you mouse over and click the screen. I am a big fan of creating complexity from simplicity. Architecturally, it is not hard to create a complex building, but most often these buildings end up being a confusing mess of spatial and material components, not making much of a statement at all. To me the best architecture can be seen as complex and at the same time simple. Absolutely diabolical! For example, see Daniel Libeskind's design for the extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum. Sadly, this building never will be realized. The founding concept of this building is a simple spiral but then it is layered with more and more detail, and a second concept of mathematic fractals. The end result is, in my opinion, his best work. Many of the examples you will find on the processing link below have a fractal quality to them.

Another concept that I enjoy with these graphic processes is the way that when the linework builds up the overall image is constantly evolving. This reminds of the way I read a Jackson Pollack painting, or Chuck Close. The image represented has very different experiences from 6 inches and 6 feet. Chuck Close's work may be the better example. If you have never seen a Close painting, go find one. From six inches they can read like brightly colored squares, that seem anything but organized. As you step away from the painting you then realized that these painted squares make up a collage that in fact is a portrait, and anything but chaotic.

So, without making you wait any longer here is the link to the processing website. I may write more about this subject, so if you are interested check back!

http://complexification.net/gallery/