Art experiment - Combination of squares and noise

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I want to examine how you could combine order and disorder to make a beautiful image. And for that I will do some experiments. This post is a continuation of my "order and disorder" series but it works to read it on its own.

1. I use black and white squares, a well-known pattern with a lot of order. I will combine it with a noise to "destroy" the order, in an attempt to make the image more interesting.

2. I'm failing - The result feels boring - maybe too simple and predictable, even though I do several attempts:

3. I think about and try to get a feeling about what might work. I get a feeling and add a pair of smaller squares into the picture:

4. I have succeeded (At least thats what I think) I do not know what really happened, I do not know why it helped add the smaller squares. I do a test to see if it's the small squares combined with the big ones that work, or if it's the small squares in combination with the noise that is the thing that makes it work:

 
5. No - These images are also feels to simple and predictable, there is not much of something that captures one and makes you want to watch more. But at least they are more interesting than my first try. None of the three base images are so good on their own or in a combination of two and two, all three are needed and I do not know why.

Thoughts of why a combination of the three are "needed":

There is probably something in the combination that will make the image more complex. Perhaps some kind of beautiful blend of something simple that goes into something complex without any clear transitions. The big squares provide large simple frames to "hold on". The noise gives a confusion, loss of connection (order), but it also gives a movement and liveliness. Maby the small squares bind them together - they have a order very similar to the big squares but the size of the squares are more like the "spots" in the noise.
/ Matilda Lorentsson