Jeremy Ripley

MORPHOGENSESIS

During my masters of textiles Studies at Parsons School of Design, I have integrated my textiles into sculptural forms. My first main form grew from my love of geometry and layering. It is sections of black knit material, stitched together and stretched within a spherical Platonic form. The piece changes as you move around it forming interacting moiré patterns.

My love of geometry grew from my annoyance of noise. I created a visualization of a humming sound wave from the triply periodic minimal surface knows as the gyroid. It has been created from white sound absorbing knit wool. It can be easily scaled to fit various spaces to control echoes and unwanted external noises.

Another minimal surface was used called the Enneper surface. This is a continuous undulating circular form. My textile is woven by changing colors to create gradients from red to purple to blue to purple to red. The colors circulate. The form has been given a skeleton and with the aid of strings it is able to move like a marionette. I, the puppeteer, makes the textile dance.

I call my textile practice morphogenesis. My textiles and their forms mimic the way nature changes and creates patterns. The layering of textiles to create moiré patterns. Textiles to show sound and to physically absorb these natural vibrations. Textiles to create dancing patterns that can change, move and rotate forever: into infinity.

Instagram - @jeremypaulripley
Website - jeremypaulripley.com
Email - jerrripley@gmail.com