Flows of Pattern

Shunsuke Takawo regards geometrical motifs as well-suited to reflecting daily life and expressing his inner world through programming. For many years, he has explored static elements such as color, shape, harmony, shadow, density, layering, and texture, while his explorations of composition are rooted in his mother’s quilting. His work, Flows of Pattern, is influenced by Hiroshi Kawano’s vision of social transformation through aesthetics as well as his 1969 work, Simulated Color Mosaic.

Like a haiku, tanka, or short melody, Takawo generates individual images filled with potential through concise code. While these codes are structured systematically, they are often daily records that he later organizes and shares publicly. His coding process is spontaneous and physical, involving writing, interacting with an output, and then adding and connecting further code. His dialogue with the computer is subtle, fleeting, and highly volatile. Takawo dreams of writing code as if he were speaking Japanese, imagining a future where fragments of his own code remain part of human history, like stone monuments or ancient tablets. He wishes to leave behind his works as well as the self transformed through the writing process.