Why was I dancing with him?

When cutting up completed work to be incorporated with another work, there is always the dilemma of how to cut it up because how it’s cut up conveys a good deal of the structure and feeling to the new work.

The question is, how many ways can a work be cut up, and even better, have interchangeable parts.

This search led me to tiling patterns, something mathematicians evidently contemplate in their free time. With a tiling pattern, two completed paintings can be cut up the same way and parts can be interchanged without waste. However, it can be boring - thus the need for subterfuge.

This work utilizes a tessellation with congruent convex pentagons discovered by the mathematician Richard E. James III. The pentagons are a starting point that serve to unify a more complex rhythm.