Looking Outwards – 02

The series of pieces I’m writing about is Mitchell Whitelaw’s ‘Limits to Growth’, a series of visual patterns made with a generative AI demonstrating a growth’s ability to limit itself through creating patterns that create a final piece that visually looks ‘whole’. While I know very little on how the artwork was made, I can hypothesize that a draw function creates a mass of lines that curve in certain patterns, with a constraint that if a line is too close to intercepting another line, the line will stop expanding. I enjoy how artistically, it doesn’t have to be known that AI generated this artwork, it could be a print that simply looks visually appealing, and mysteriously calculated.

https://mtchl.net/limits-to-growth/