The inspiration for the pattern of holes in the surface and the overall shape of the sculpture, was drawn from two sources: The first was the overlapping interference pattern of ripples created on the surface of the water by bubbling water jets, the idea of somehow echoing that within a solid form felt like an appropriate starting point. The second was to draw from the name of the new development, “Knights Wood” by exploring the well-established, and now reinvigorated, woodland which surrounds the development. Specimen leaves, nuts and cones were collected from the woodland and arranged into a lace like sequence of natural shapes. All the shapes represented are from native and non-native trees found in the vicinity of Knights Wood.
The fractal pattern is based on Penrose Tiling, a non-periodic tessellation that continues to fascinate both artists and scientists, it is named after the mathematician and physicist Sir Roger Penrose, who investigated the pattern in the 1970’s.