Ⓒ 2022 Aiman Soliman

Title: Visual Counterpoint I 
Date: 2022
Dimensions:  70, 30 cm
Medium: Archival Digital Print

Two flocks of tessellated quails fly into each other, and when they intersect, they reveal a new motif (songbirds) with different plane symmetry. The quail tessellation is combined harmonically with a copy of itself, which is reflected and shifted half a unit in both x and y directions. Combining the two tessellations introduces glide reflection axes inside the original quail motifs and transforms the quail plane symmetry group from p2 to the songbird symmetry group of pgg. This transformation is in agreement with the wallpaper subgroup relationships, which were recognized by mathematicians, including Coxeter.