A branching tree — drawn from a single seed, growing by the golden ratio, until it fills the field.
For fashion houses, textile studios and surface designers. Each composition is generated from a numeric seed and can be licensed, adapted or commissioned to your brief.
A tree is a single stroke that remembers every branch it has ever grown.
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.
Pappus is named for the seed-bearing tuft of a flower — the small, feathered structure carried on the wind. In this system, that tuft becomes a fractal tree: a recursive branching structure that grows from a single point, splitting at each generation into one to eleven sub-branches.
Every branch follows the golden ratio — its length scaled by 0.618, its angle drawn from a bounded range. Two colours govern the tree: one for the body (the deeper strokes) and one for the hair (the fine tips). The composition grows from a seeded point in the lower half of the canvas, its final form emergent rather than planned. Each piece is defined by a numeric seed and can be regenerated, documented, and adapted for textile, print, and surface applications.
The same seed, presented as an archival print — and applied across fabric, scarf, textile and wall surfaces without loss of structure.
Every surface below is drawn from the same numeric seed — its repeat, orientation and scale adapted to the material, while the underlying structural logic remains identical.
A numeric seed initializes the background tone, the body and hair colours, the tree's starting position, its starting angle, and every sub-branch count along the recursion. Each output is regenerated and documented as a distinct, traceable work.
At each generation, the branch splits into one to eleven sub-branches, each with a length scaled by the golden ratio (0.618) and an angle drawn from a bounded range. The recursion runs nine levels deep, filling the canvas with a natural, organic form.
The resulting composition becomes a surface-design asset — explored across garments, textile prints, wallpaper and other pattern-driven applications.
Pappus is a generative design system rather than a single artwork. Its fractal-tree language can be adapted for fashion, textile development and other surface-oriented contexts — while maintaining a computational origin.
Each surface is drawn from the same numeric seed — reproducible, licensable, adaptable to your brief.