Paintings and silkscreens by Holly Alderman (design science portfolio in RISD collection). Also gaze systems art whimsey in narrative watercolors of provocative witticisms by artist-musician John Kernochan. Compare systems art of two centuries ago: Gaze epic Mediterranean voyages in evocative scenic wallpaper monochrome panoramas by Dufour artisans of pre-industrial Paris, available renewed in digital systems printing.

​In the Atrium, your eyes naturally seek symmetry and synergy and instantly recognize parallels in patterns, mirror lines, glide lines, reflections, angles, rotations and rotocenters 1,2,3,4. You might pick up a pencil and pattern puzzles, follow clues and crack the codes.

​Synergy art is a calling, not to wryly measure out our life in coffee spoons as in T. S. Eliot satire. The quest being to seek and find how many structures exist in two dimensions; define codes for choices, limits and freedom of design; share science for benefit of humanity.