Art

I have never considered myself a visually artistic person. I can't draw, paint, or create in a way that I view as traditionally artistic. However, I do make art, just in my own way. Whether it be spreadsheets, mazes, combinations therein (or thereout), I like making things. A large part of the personal sections of this site are here as a way for me to validate to myself that what I am doing counts, and I have found that speaking things into the world makes them a little more true each time you say them. So I am an artist, and here is some of my art!

Canvas Mazes

The Black Friday Sail

Spreadsheets

There is something about repetetive action that soothes the soul. Repeating the same action over and over for hours or even days at a time, with just enough slight variation to keep the spirits alite. Or maybe it's just the ADHD. Regardless, here's some spreadsheet art.

Pokémon Sprites

Back in the fall of 2022 I was thinking of new art projects I might be interested in. I like the idea of taking some pixel art and transforming into something physical, possibly with quilting or crocheting (skills I do not have). What resulted was me spending several hours (re)creating pokémon sprites, pixel by pixel, in a Google sheet. I limited myself to only the sixty or so default colors in Google sheets in the aim to keep the colors limited to those I could possibly acquire in real life. As it turns out there are almost 3,000 unique colors used in the Gen III pokémon sprites, so this was a little ambitious of me (A breakdown of every color used in each sprite, as well as a compiled list of all colors used can be found here).

Golem

Google Sheet, 2022

Machamp

Google Sheet, 2022

Alakazam

Google Sheet, 2022

Gengar

Google Sheet, 2022

Arcanine

Google Sheet, 2022

Gyarados

Google Sheet, 2022

In Spring 2024 I returned to this project, and spent maybe thirty minutes writing a python program that can convert the sprites instantly, but I still like these original six that I made cell by cell.

Hoenn

Google Sheet, 2020-2022