Tendrils is a series of computer-controlled ink on paper works by Erin Robinson that explore the geometric interplay between mathematics and the natural world. Through algorithmic drawing, Robinson translates digital systems into organic gestures, allowing computational precision to unfold into forms that echo biological growth, erosion, and accumulation. The works balance structure and spontaneity, tracing the tension between control and emergence, code and life.

In Precipitate, fine ink lines converge into a coral-like lattice, suggesting both the cellular architectures of living organisms and the crystalline logic of mathematical surfaces. The dense, undulating geometry appears to breathe, as if grown rather than drawn, formed through recursive processes and minute mechanical variation.

Substrate, by contrast, is more gestural and fluid. Composed of looping, worm-like coils, it evokes colonies of organisms moving and entangling across a mutable terrain. The work captures a sense of dynamic accumulation: particles clustering, dispersing, and reforming as though tracing the invisible logic of growth beneath the surface.

Together, the works reflect on how digital systems can generate lifelike complexity, blurring the line between the synthetic and the organic. Robinson’s Tendrils series proposes that the natural and the computational are not opposites, but extensions of the same generative impulse.