Fontana is Latin for fountain. 

This project is a playful attempt at abstractly capturing the flowing movement of a fountain using precisely drawn elements that evoke a static and considered rendering of a subject that is in constant flux. The visual language is reminiscent of hand-draughted technical drawing, a precise and methodical practice that progresses at a radically different pace to the flowing and capricious movement of water. To increase this tension between dynamic motion and static mechanical process I wanted the surface textures to appear worn and aged like a drawing that has spent its life in the bottom of a mechanics drawer. This process of abrasion and discoloration is occurring on yet another scale of time adding complexity to the references of time passing. 

Woven into the very fabric of Fontana is a fully generative solution for creating color expression. This means there is no reliance on preset palettes with every output being an entirely unique color articulation of the color story I want the project to reveal as a whole. Far from being random I attempted to create an approach which produces colors that evoke early 20th Century art and design media. With this intention I wanted  outputs to look like they could be working drawing artifacts from this period of time.

Ether

Fontana #470

Fontana by Harvey Rayner | patterndotco

Wrapped Ether

OpenSea

Fontana #170

Fontana #426

Fontana #324

Fontana #420

Fontana #427

Fontana #393

Sansa

Fontana #19

Fontana #39

Fontana #353

Fontana #219

Fontana #241

Fontana #304

Fontana #226

Fontana #83

Fontana #43

Fontana #74

Fontana #300

Fontana #151

Fontana #269

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Flow potential

Over-painting

Composition

Containment