User:Silviolorusso/Amanofmanyparts
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A man of Many Parts
What
"A man of many parts" is a booklet in which each part of an SVG clipart becomes the constituting element of a pattern.
How
I broke down an SVG clip art found on OpenClipArt.org. In this way I obtained shapes that don't necessarily refer to a figurative image. Then I used python to generate a pattern for each one of these elements.
Why
I was fascinated by the Open Clip Art archive and by the simplicity to rework these files. What I found particularly interesting were not the final designs, but their constituting parts.
Taken singly they sometimes have a strong iconic value. The repetition of a simple shape, liberates it from its figurative referent.