Phil Sutters' photos with the keyword: geometric

This was the result of the first couple of stages of development in the creation of the neighbouring image. Not a bad image in its own right - but I can't leave anything alone!

A cross-section of a fractal brush was drawn out into horizontal lines and three red lines were added. 'Polar coordinate' from the 'distort' menu turned it into an oval. This was placed over a white background., merged down. A quarter was then 'inverted' changing the white to black and the red to cyan. This repeated in the diagonally opposite quadrant. The whole layer was then copied. The top layer was 'skewed', taking one corner over to the opposite corner and vice versa. I think that that was repeated.

A cross-section through one of Dan Hinde's fractal brushes was drawn out into a couple of dozen thin horizontal parallel black lines Red lines were added between three pairs of black ones. This pattern was then 'distorted' using the 'polar coordinate' effect to arrive at the oval shape seen here. The was copied, resized and tilted and the resulting shape then copied and made into a symmetrical pattern. Some coloured gradients were then added in selected areas and a final background grad was placed behind the pattern.

This was achieved with very few stages. Both elements come from the same set of parallel lines, but the round one is made with the Photoshop Elements 'distort/polar coordinate' filter.

Art on the Cart was an initiative of the Southwark Council Arts Team to make art reach into every corner of the borough. Eight refuse trucks, dustcarts, in UK parlance, had vinyl cladding whose designs were based on artworks with a connection to the Borough of Southwark. The Southwark Council website used to say the following about the artwork: "Bill Woodrow trained at Winchester School of Art, St. Martins College of Art and Chelsea College of Art. He is an internationally recognised sculptor and artist and lives and works in SE5. He is a regular exhibitor at the South London Gallery. In 1994 Woodrow produced a series of black and white linocuts that are based on chapters of Primo Levi's acclaimed book The Periodic Table. Primo Levi, 1919 to 87, trained as a chemist in the 1930s and, when imprisoned in Auschwitz during the war, was saved from death by being put to work in the camp’s laboratory. Around each element Levi weaves a tale that is both autobiographical and fictional. In Woodrow’s work each black and white linocut print identifies the element with its chemical name. The images on the cart are of the Tin, Arsenic, Sulphur and Nickel linocuts".

This sculpture has been stolen by metal thieves.

The accompanying information panel can be found at www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/49898614 with further images of this artwork adjacent to it.

This was one of my highest scoring photos on Flickr. Nothing has changed but a url - now only one person has found it. I never worked out what the interest was, but I couldn't find other works by Michael Kellaway on the net. So maybe MK kept coming back to cherish his one bit of fame! 16.4.2018 - This piece still remains a mystery. Someone else, on another site, has found another of his works in a totally different medium - collage. It has been established that 144 Southwark Street was, at the time this was installed on its rear wall, an office for British Railways international goods services. That hasn't helped to explain what, if anything, inspired the work, or why it is tucked away on the back of the office block. Michael Kellaway went on to be a lecturer in the arts.