Sarah Alford
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Remember the Seed Germ: for Louis Sullivan (2010)
Remember the Seed Germ begins with Louis Sullivan’s tile pattern around the window, and ends in a dense, layered, repeat formed by the hot glue’s tendency to create its own lines as I draw. I have long been inspired by Sullivan’s theory of design in which he extolled the geometric form as a ‘seed germ’ or as a container of radical energy.