Blue Girih
2014
Photographic Montage
55" x 26"
Anna Chupa
Allentown, PA
chupaworks.com/anna
lehigh.edu/~anc304/tiling/gallery.html
These photographic montaged still life compositions from flowers are embedded into girih tiles arranged into compositions with fivefold symmetries. The word girih literally translates to “knot” in Arabic, and refers to a set of five tiles: a decagon, a pentagon, a concave hexagon (bowtie), an elongated hexagon, and a rhombus.
Blue Girih is inspired by Islamic tiling designs constructed from five tiles: an elongated hexagon, a concave hexagon (bowtie), a pentagon, a decagon and a rhombus each filled with a photographically montaged floral still life.
Allentown, PA
chupaworks.com/anna
lehigh.edu/~anc304/tiling/gallery.html
These photographic montaged still life compositions from flowers are embedded into girih tiles arranged into compositions with fivefold symmetries. The word girih literally translates to “knot” in Arabic, and refers to a set of five tiles: a decagon, a pentagon, a concave hexagon (bowtie), an elongated hexagon, and a rhombus.
Blue Girih is inspired by Islamic tiling designs constructed from five tiles: an elongated hexagon, a concave hexagon (bowtie), a pentagon, a decagon and a rhombus each filled with a photographically montaged floral still life.
