Hamonshu is a generative artist whose code-based work returns again and again to ripples, waves and flowers, rendered with p5.js and often finished with hand-applied watercolor textures.,The name and recurring wave motifs come directly from Hamonshū, a 1903 Japanese pattern book of wave and ripple designs that the artist has cited as a direct source of inspiration.
Pieces such as Paradise are made entirely with code, using layered rings and circular geometry to suggest ripples spreading across water. For Sacred, made as a tribute to the lotus, Hamonshu applied watercolor effects and weathered textures by hand in a photo editor, saying the piece felt cold and rigid without that extra pass. In Flower Study, camellia petals rendered through code became a study in geometric symmetry.
Hamonshu also released p5.paper, an open-source WebGL library for the creative-coding framework p5.js that simulates the texture of physical paper, including grooves, grit, grain and edge vignetting. The tool pairs with the existing library p5.brush, so that watercolor-style strokes generated in code can sit on a surface that reads as physically real.
Beyond code-based work, Hamonshu sells physical prints, made and shipped as handmade screen prints from the artist's own studio.Hamonshu's work is included in the artist archive of the platform MILK, alongside artists such as Dmitri Cherniak and Rafaël Rozendaal.
