Starting with a repeatable system of colors and/or triangles typically seen in geometric abstraction, rive employs generative art to break/split/rive those patterns–and the comfort we find in them–in slight, seemingly unintentional ways. With each subsequent split, our comfort fades as the artwork is shredded into barely recognizable fragments of a once carefully orchestrated pattern.

Not all rivings are created equal; some are subtle and barely visible while others are acute and violent.

What holds it together is what breaks it apart.

created using triangles and p5js

rive abstractment, 2022

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