I hope I'll be able to provide a subtitled version of this video very soon.
The video explains how I had a vision of star magnolia a few years ago. The blooming tree appeared to me like a crystal, from every angle, with its branches forming very regular grids and its flowers spread as if they were the crystal's vertices.
I began to investigate Penrose tilings, which to my opinion (and for many possible reasons), describe very well not only magnolias, but also trees and human bodies.
My body of work "The Penrose Project" uses my photos of trees, and exhibits this poetic vision of nature, exploring the possibility that our world may actually be a crystal.
Together with the Nicolas Sultan, I also applied this theory to human portraiture.
Penrose tilings have underlying grids, based on the golden number, that converge into many concentration points. I use them for composition in my paintings, photos, and movies in a variety of ways. In painting, I explore the way they can help creating illusions of space and volume.
To me, the perspective model allows to describe rather well portraits, certain landscapes, and cityscapes, but the underlying grid of perspective is a set of lines converging towards one (up to 4) concentration points. This flattens the volumes in destroying part of the space: for instance, when we try to photography desert or seismic landscapes, and the overall result is frustratingly far from the amazing original view. On the contrary, the Penrose grid I use allows a new vision for painting composition.
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