Source — Catalogue Self-Rendering Code · Layered Ellipses
A study in self-portraiture

Source

The sketch draws its own code — twelve wild ellipses and a hundred and twenty radial glows behind the source that made them.

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.

Issue Source — Autumn 2026
Discipline Generative Composition
Edition Seed-based · Open series
00 / Statement Artist Statement

A program that draws its own source becomes its own portrait.

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.

Source takes that observation literally. The sketch holds its own code as an array of strings, then draws them — line by line, monospace, white — on top of a field it has also drawn. Twelve wild ellipses in mirror symmetry, a hundred and twenty radial glows layered from the centre, and the code that generates both.

The result is a self-portrait, half diagram, half aura. The code is legible but not meant to be read — it's texture, structure, and signature at once. Each piece is defined by a numeric seed and can be regenerated, documented, and adapted for textile, print, and surface applications.

On AI tools — where I encountered technical obstacles, I turned to AI tools for debugging and code optimization. Every structural, aesthetic, and conceptual decision remained my own.
01 / Plate

Reading
the source.

02 / Surfaces

One source.
Many surfaces.

The same seed, presented as an archival print — and applied across fabric, scarf, textile and wall surfaces without loss of structure.

Plate 007 Archival print · 1 : 1 · Open edition

Applied across surfaces.

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.

iPrint
Archival print
1 : 1 · Cotton rag
iiScarf
Silk scarf
3 : 1 · Twill silk
iiiTextile
Fabric yardage
4 : 3 · Repeat tile
ivWall
Wallpaper
2 : 3 · Vertical repeat
03 / Process

Structure
behind the source.

01 / Ground

Two Layers

A random hue sets the background, held to low saturation and low brightness. Twelve wild ellipses are drawn next in mirror pairs — one at a random position, a second reflected through the centre. Then a hundred and twenty radial glows accumulate from the middle out, each at 10–30 alpha.

02 / Text

Self-Portrait

The sketch's own code — held as an array of strings — is drawn on top, line by line, in monospace at 1.2% of canvas height. The code is legible but not meant to be read; it's the piece's signature, its structure, and its texture at once.

03 / Surface

Application

The resulting composition becomes a surface-design asset — explored across garments, textile prints, wallpaper and other pattern-driven applications.

04 / Archive

Selected
seeds.

8 compositions · Open series Click any plate to load it above
For brands & studios

One system.
Many surfaces.

Source is a generative design system rather than a single artwork. Its self-rendering language can be adapted for fashion, textile development and other surface-oriented contexts — while maintaining a computational origin.

i
Licensing Existing seeds from the archive, licensed for production use.
ii
Commission New compositions designed to your palette, repeat and product.
iii
Systems A private generative tool built for your studio's ongoing use.
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