Jazzberry Blue creates digital art that finds a balance between technical diagrams and the sprawling complexity of modern cities. In the print Geometric Formulas, the artist presents a chart of twenty different shapes arranged in a five-by-four grid. Each polygon and cone is accompanied by its specific mathematical formula for area or volume, making the piece feel like a page from a designer’s sketchbook. I like how this structured approach to form carries over into the artist’s series of city maps, where urban environments are stripped down to their essential lines.
In the Denver Map, a dense grid of small rectangles in tan and teal is broken by a thick, irregular line running vertically through the centre. This sense of movement is also present in the Barcelona Map, which features a jagged coastline bordering a solid beige area. While the Atlanta Map uses a palette of orange and yellow to divide the space into multi-coloured blocks, all these works share a fascination with how we organise the world. The intersecting lines and varying thicknesses create a rhythmic pattern that makes the city look like a living machine.
