Patterns!
This series of patterns revolves around food! It was inspired by a nutritiously delicious, marvelously gorgeous… beet. There I was, sitting at the kitchen island, reading my comics, gnawing on a carrot, when suddenly my mom gasps from the counter where she was chopping vegetables. I looked up, startled, because I thought she had cut herself, but no. She held up a beet, brandishing the beautiful magenta root vegetable to the overhead lights. “Look at this BEET!” she emphatically commanded.
Having no choice in the matter, I dutifully gazed -undazzled- at the dusty brown outer layer of the beet, the geode-esque inner fruit of the vegetable hidden from my view. When she turned it to me, I was taken aback by the sheer gloriousness of it.
Rich tones of violet, magenta, burgundy, and maroon spiraled out from the center in concentric rings, like a wonderful, galactic onion. I was so tremendously inspired that I began piecing together the first of this series of patterns.
Eventually, I admitted that the beauty of the beet may exist better off the page, instead remaining an imperfectly perfect vision in my mind. (Sugarplums? Meh. Beets? Heck yes!) And so I my verdict -after a long and laborious decision-making battle- was to leave it out of the final pattern, which is the first one shown below. And so the beet’s gloriosity lives forever on in spirit, haunting the kitchen in the best, most non-creepy-possession way possible. Also, it was delicious.
