Gina Siepel

Gina Siepel

  • Projects
    • To Understand a Tree (work in process)
      • Tree and Site
      • Participants and Public Engagement
      • Green Woodworking
    • Cycle of Self-Determination
    • SELF-MADE
    • Re-Surveying Walden
    • The Versatile Queer-All
    • 1 x 1
    • A River Twice
    • The Boy Mechanic Project
    • The Coracles of Pignut Pond
    • The Candidate is Absent
    • CACOPHONY
    • Audubon's Birds
    • Portrait of Audubon
    • After Winslow Homer
    • Emma's Walk
    • King Philip Was a Warrior Bold, Whose Deeds Were Writ in Records Old
    • Historic Site
    • Recursions
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    • "Gina Siepel: The Artist as Explorer," by Lauren Lessing
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Recursion I
2007
graphite on paper
30" x 22"
In mathematics, "recursion" is the repeated application of the same rule to a process. This and other algorithmic structures were useful to me in exploring the potential of emergent processes in drawing. These drawings explored the relationship between simplicity and complexity in visual information and generated abstraction in a hybridized, perception - based way. I began with a satellite image of a place I once called home, and applied two simple rules in order to transform it: a transformation of scale, and a transformation of material. The application of simple rule-based processes to the image of this former home radically transformed it, making the familiar strange and the strange familiar.


photo credit: Stephen Petegorsky

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