Randi Martinez randi.a.martinez@gmail.com | www.randimartinez.com
Interdisciplinary
Emergence Emergence is the process whereby larger entities arise through interactions among smaller or simpler entities that individually do not exhibit such properties. Natural systems interest me, specifically in the way certain animal groups exhibit emergent behavior by
herding, flocking, or swarming. Nearly all types of life forms, from butterflies to roaming wildebeest herds, tend to cluster together. These gatherings are often contradictory: the members react only to their surroundings but the overall motion is fluid; the interactions are simple but the forms are complex; the control seems centralized but movement
results from individual decisions. This clustering, when removed from its immediate environment, reveals beautiful abstracted forms. I study the visual forms that these animal groupings naturally create, and then repeat these forms over and over. The individual fades into the mass, and the minuscule becomes a bridge to the macroscopic.
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