# Flowers v5 — Spiral

Two plaited ropes of outlined circles in plain black on white; opaque discs stamped densely along an easing path bury each other into an engraved cable.

Source: https://steevepommier.com/motion/flowers-v5-spiral/
Section: Motion
Published: 2026-07-07
Tags: 2d, black and white

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Two plaited black-and-white ropes hang side by side, built from concentric
rings that read like an engraving. At their ends the strands resolve into
little bundles of circles, and the pair sways as the drawing path glides
between corner anchors.

Each stamp is no longer a star of strokes but a wreath of circles set around a
polygon's edges, drawn opaque — white fill, black outline — so every new stamp
buries the last and the overlap itself produces the cable shading. The inner
wreath counter-rotates faster than the stamp advances, twisting the column into
its plait, and the anchors ease with a bounce rather than a straight blend. It
is the family's monochrome version: colour handling is dropped entirely in
favour of ink-on-paper opacity.