Jeremy Paul Ripley

I have integrated my textiles into sculptural forms that grow from my love of geometry. “Darkness” features sections of black knit material stitched together and stretched within a spherical Platonic form. As you move around it, the piece changes and forms interacting moiré patterns. I also created a physical manifestation of a humming sound wave from the triply periodic minimal surface knows as the gyroid. It is created from white sound-absorbing knit wool and can be easily scaled to fit various spaces to minimize echoes and unwanted external noises. Another form, the Enneper surface, creates a continuous undulating circular form. This 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, make the textile dance. In sum, my textiles and their forms mimic the way nature changes and creates patterns. The layering of textiles to create moiré patterns. Textiles to represent sound and to physically absorb these natural vibrations. Textiles to create dancing patterns that can change, move, and rotate forever, into infinity.