Gabriel Orozco

The Samurai Tree:
1. Starting from the centre, a sequence of growing circles multiplied or divided by two, developed to the limits of the square.
2. The Structural and directional axes of the sequence generate a fiels division.
3. We have four colours, one coulour per field.
4. The location and distribution of colours start from the centre and "jump" like a knight in a chess game (one and two or two and one fields).
5. The background can also be divided by four and the location of colours can be related to the circle in the centre as contrary, completmentary or equalizing.
6. The whole structure can rotate as much as the background.

On these pages, we can show the 672 possible invariants that can be developped by following these rules within a single drawing.
.Gabriel Orozco.

This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition on the occasion of the blueOrange 2006, awarded to Gabriel Orozco by the German Cooperative Banks (Deutsche Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken), at Museum Ludwig, Cologne 3 November 2006 - 28 January 2007.

Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Koln.