Sri Lanka, 1943
Cecil Balmond OBE is a Sri Lankan–British designer, artist, and writer. In 1968 Balmond joined Ove Arup & Partners, leading him to become deputy chairman. In 2000 he founded design and research group, the AGU (Advanced Geometry Unit).
It appears that a simple rule, of something adhering to another similar idea, repeated, leads to stabilities. This seems to be a function of relational data sets, linked to rules, like in DNA chains that have infinite adaptability for sequencing proteins. Out of only four bases, which in turn are further limited by two rules of complimentarity, a myriad of forms arise.
The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.
I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.
Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure.
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