Particle Flourish, 2021.

Particle Flourish is a series of simulations and models that use computation to imagine artificial forms of life. Built from particle systems, the work explores how simple, rule-based interactions can give rise to unexpectedly complex morphologies. Each particle is both a unit and a seed: a carrier of encoded behaviors that, when repeated cyclically, allow for propagation through branching, splitting, and clustering. In this way, growth is not scripted in advance but generated through process — a continual negotiation between constraint and emergence.

The series frames particles as agents of flourish: small instructions that unfold into larger, flourishing architectures. Their propagation suggests organisms that sprout, bifurcate, and multiply, not unlike botanical or microbial growth, but detached from biology and reborn in the computational space. Rather than simulating nature directly, Particle Flourish investigates how digital matter can invent its own logics of becoming, flourishing through the repetition of encoded rules. What results are forms that feel alive without being alive — systems that thrive in cycles of proliferation and decay, always more process than product.