These woodcuts are based on a series of drawings of mathematical knots that I made after reading an article about Lisa Piccirillo, a mathematician who has recently solved the “Conway Knot” problem. Seeing a drawing of the Conway Knot on first glance had an uncanny likeness to some looping drawings I had been making and this led me to begin a new series of artworks.

Last spring I approached Mark Johnsen and Sara-Jeanne Bourget at Patio Press editions and we worked together to produce a suite of prints based on eight different knot drawings that were rasterized and then laser cut on fir and mahogany blocks, in a varied edition of twenty four, one and two colours prints.

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