AutoEclectus is the code-based generative art project of Allan Leisk, who lives and works in rural northern New South Wales, Australia. Drawing on the palm trunks, tree bark and cellular growth patterns of that landscape, he writes algorithms that translate organic shapes into precise geometric compositions, in search of “a connection between the digital and the organic world”.
Leisk's earliest fxhash releases, Folded and Folded Circle, both from December 2021, were hard-edge geometric compositions of stripes and folds drawn from 1960s hard-edge painting. In June 2022 he began working with organic, trunk-like shapes in Organica, a small collection released on objkt.com during Tezos Art Week. That exploration led to Yashinoki, an fxhash collection of 256 editions released in September 2022 that took its forms from cross-sections of palm tree trunks he had cut down in his garden and from Japanese woodblock prints. The same month he released Kaibō, also 256 editions on fxhash, which dissected Yashinoki's organic forms into composable geometric shapes before letting them dissolve back into organic growth.
