Thomas Pilgaard

Something about the almost-symmetry really caught my eye. And when I began looking closer and zooming I had a moment of wondering if it was pen plotter art before coming back around 😂 what a rollercoaster. Great work! 🥳

It is easy to get distracted 😆 but I don't complain when it leads to interesting outcomes ✨

Nice simple set of rules creating interesting structures 👍

Now extrapolate that realization to most people doing public speaking and sprinkle some llm generated content in there, and tell me what you think the future will be like 😵 I just made myself sad.

Love these two. Immediately begin imagining what algorithms went into creating them 🧠✨😂

I find the bright blue sky to be such a wonderful contrast to the orange-red-brown tones of the dried up leaves. Reminiscent of the summer gone by, yet announcing that cold winter days are drawing ever closer ☀️🍃🌨️

These colors remind me of the last few dry days of autumn ☀️🍁 The warm glow of the blanket of leaves covering the ground. Kicking up bunches of them 🥾🍂 as I am walking under the bare branches. Feeling the last heat of sunrays before winter arrives.

This is 9_14_1_126_201_1_7 from a series I created during autumn 2024. For these works I combined a pattern of flowing shapes, with color gradients developed from photos of trees, leaves, and insects. #geometricart #abstractart #concreteart

Last autumn I found so incredibly many sources of seasonal colors 🍃🍂🍁 This is one of my favorites because wide scale of colors. Green, yellow, orange, red, and brown coming together in a progression 🌈 like the passage of time from summer through autumn to winter ☀️🍃🌨️

I like to experiment with gradients that have contrasting groups of lighter and darker colors ⚪⚫ And if I can manage it, a group of colors with similar lightness to bring out some Mach bands 🩶 It all adds more dimensions to the work.

This is 9_14_1_126_201_1_6 from a series I created during autumn 2024. For these works I combined a pattern of flowing shapes, with color gradients developed from photos of trees, leaves, and insects. #geometricart #abstractart #concreteart

This gradient is proof that even the most potato quality smartphone camera photos 📸 can have interesting colors in them. I am weary of how much post-processing the smartphone software does to "enhance" ✨ the outcome though. I always make sure at least to tweak exposure and temperature.

I am excited 🤩 about how the color combinations come across in the detail views. Concentrated little bites of greenery joy 🌳 The lightness of the colors is different enough that the Mach bands are less pronounced than I would like them to be. With some patience, they still appear though 💚🩵👀

This is 9_14_1_126_201_1_5 from a series I created during autumn 2024. For these works I combined a pattern of flowing shapes, with color gradients developed from photos of trees, leaves, and insects. #geometricart #abstractart #concreteart

Similarly to how we are reasonable at estimating length, bad at guessing area and hilariously bad at understanding volumes. I don't think it is an analytical problem necessarily, but perhaps more of a perceptual one.

Like, I might have designed even a seemingly simple system and believe that I know what it will do when I apply it, but generally I have always been wrong in some non-intuitive way. Complexity tends to unfold from the time dimension that we are not well equipped to predict.

In my experience understanding can be a tall order. It might just be me, but from observation it seems that human cognition is incredibly insufficient to predict how systems behave in motion.

I am fascinated by how well the color gradients I create work out most of the time. It is definitely the easiest to capture nice progressions in macro shots of tiny singular structures. But this one shows nicely that larger composite structures can also have interesting colors come together.

Do you remember those final brilliant sunny ☀️ autumn days with the last reminisence of what summer used to be like? I recall feeling the warmth of the sun on my skin. Leaves brightly colored 🍃 hanging on to the last remains of their once lush green tones before fading to browns and reds 🍂

This is 9_14_1_126_201_1_4 from a series I created during autumn 2024. For these works I combined a pattern of flowing shapes, with color gradients developed from photos of trees, leaves, and insects. #geometricart #abstractart #concreteart

It rarely happens that I have a set of green colors that translates so well between RGB and CMYK as these did. I often feel so frustrated 😒 by the color conversion process. But the win 🏆 is so much sweeter when it turns out just right on those rare occasions.

I fell instantly in love 😍 with how this color gradient and pattern interacts with each other. Calm flows from deep greens to yellows and oranges. It gives me strong early autumn vibes where the first trees are turning colorful but there are still hardy ones around that stay green for so long.

This is 9_14_1_126_201_1_3 from a series I created during autumn 2024. For these works I combined a pattern of flowing shapes, with color gradients developed from photos of trees, leaves, and insects. #geometricart #abstractart #concreteart

It sounds like you are putting a lot of thought and effort into creating a life you like. That is really demanding work. I think it is very understandable that a person may show up in different moods under such circumstances.

I can relate to uneven process 😅 most of the time I have no idea where things are going, but noticing that there is change, I take as a reminder that something else is possible.

Love your colors 💛🤩

I feel what you are saying. There is room for grieving that. I used to think something similar. It seems to me that the parts that remained were the ones that mattered, and something breaking made room for other things that needed more attention. Does that resonate with you?

Sounds like you are having a rough time. I am sorry about that. I felt sad reading your assessment of the situation. I can only imagine how it feels to you. I know it might sound cheesy, but in my experience things can and do get better in time. It just really sucks while it lasts 💛

I love 💚 it when I notice leaves that have color sequences beyond monochrome greens. Autumn 🍂 is such a great time of year to discover unexpected colors in all kinds of plants ✨🌿

It never ceases to amaze 🤩 me how well many of the detail cutouts turn out. They are reminders to me that this kind of geometric pattern can be visually interesting at many different scales. There often appears to be a calm to compositions where each shape gets to take up more of the canvas.