Nebula Knight

A knight moves in an L — and every L is a jump that cannot be reversed.

I am an Iranian-born artist working at the intersection of classical textile logic and generative systems. My work begins with a simple observation: the woven surface — repetitive, mathematically structured, infinitely variable — has always been a form of computation, long before computers.

Nebula Knight begins from the knight's tour — a path in which a chess knight visits every cell of a grid once, moving in its characteristic L-shaped leaps. Here, that path is stochastic: the knight chooses among valid moves at random, seeded so the resulting path is deterministic and reproducible.

The path is drawn as a series of rings — one per visited cell — each sized by the seeded step lengths and tinted by a gradient that runs from dark to light across the tour. What emerges is a nebula: a drifting cloud of circles, dense and open at once, held together by the logic of the knight's leap.