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Symmetry & Chaos

Bryce Fantasy posted on Dec 04, 2014
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I've always been drawn to symmetry, though it seems like it's been largely rejected by most modern artists. In a way it's a cheat, because it's an automatic way to achieve balance in a composition & I've steered away from it at times to challenge myself more, but I keep coming back to it. What I tried to do here was to create dense layers of symmetry, combined with complex textures, to move the symmetry into a more chaotic realm. I hope that all doesn't sound too pretentious - basically I'm just doodling in a semi-serious way because I enjoy doing it & hope others will enjoy the results... Please zoom

Comments (10)


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giulband

11:35AM | Thu, 04 December 2014

Wonderful composed fantastic colors !!!!

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TwoPynts

12:14PM | Thu, 04 December 2014

Love your symmetrical doodles!

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Faemike55

1:07PM | Thu, 04 December 2014

in the center, it looks like there is an evil blue clown, ready to take over the world Cool work

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cvrad

2:10PM | Thu, 04 December 2014

LOOKSKOOL

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peedy

11:43PM | Thu, 04 December 2014

Beautiful. Great colors. Corrie

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anahata.c

11:17AM | Fri, 05 December 2014

These Bryce creations of yours are such a treasure chest of precious jewels, cheap costume jewelry, great grandmother's trinkets, old objects from the 16th C that no one in the family can recognize but which everyone figures is worth a lot, old grandfather clock parts, and fantasies from places as diverse as arcade games and pinball machines to the ancient fields of the Hindu and Buddhist epics. I love this. A juke box for the cosmic set. And re symmetry---it's a tyrant, I think, and yes it's 'cheating' in a way, because it takes away the need to do half the pic...But I learned that when I had to actually draw the second side, the act of duplicating in reverse was immensely challenging, even rejuvenating: Because, while I was repeating everything, I was doing it in reverse, which let me relive the first half in a whole new way. But you went further: Your front shapes look symmetric; but the back layers are different! That 'chaos' factor. We look at the two wiry looped-triangles, one to each side of that center face: The two sides (or "ears") are backed by true variations! On the right, you have the reds in different places than on the left. The bulgy balloony things---on the two bottom sides---have different colors in each case, even some different shapes. You gave each side real changes---so it's not wholly symmetric. But when you think of the original meaning, it all makes sense: sym meaning "with" (symbiosis, sympathy), and metry meaning "metric" or "measure": Everything in harmonious measure. It really doesn't have to be 'copy-cat', just harmonious. And as for the rest of the piece, I'll never know how you get that tactile feeling---I know this is 3D software, but your objects jump off the page. I love this piece. Love the erector-set "booga booga" look, love that he's got pods instead of teeth, love the echoes of his eyes around him, love the corpulent snakes and the big pink neon tubing...I could go on. Your imagination has order---sym-metrics---but it's unbridled, fun, and bursting with color and play (mixed with a little horror). I knew when I came here that I'd love the piece. And I did. These things are so well-formed, it's hard to believe you didn't just pull them out of your imaginary attic, dust them off, and post them. Wonderful!

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auntietk

10:39PM | Sat, 06 December 2014

Nice! :) (You see, that's the kind of comment you can expect when I like it but have nothing meaningful to say. I'll leave all that to Mark.) :)

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irisinthespring

9:30PM | Sun, 07 December 2014

Awesome work!

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ansgar2

1:25PM | Mon, 08 December 2014

Fantastic work....!!! Well done...!!!

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moat

2:22PM | Sat, 02 May 2015

Great!


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