About
Behind every piece, a person
Alright, you landed on the "about" page, so let me be straight with you: Code & Canvas is one person. Me, alone at the screen, somewhere in the south of France. No collective, no agency, no marketing team. A machine, an idea I've been carrying around for ages, and quite a few evenings spent tuning colours.
I'm a developer. A master's in robotics, a good twenty years of writing code, and an obsession that never let go of me: sequences, curves, fractals. Fibonacci at the top of the list.
Why this project?
It all started with something silly: I wanted to hang a nice Fibonacci spiral on my wall. A fractal, a figure born from an algorithm, something clean. I looked around... and found nothing I really liked. So instead of grumbling about it, I told myself: I'll make it myself. And while I'm at it, I'll share it.
Why one piece a day?
I set myself a simple rule and I stick to it: one artwork published a day, not one more. It's a safeguard as much as a ritual. No flood of throwaway images, no "post 40 variants and see what sticks". One piece, chosen, with its own place and its own date. That's it.
My favourite part
Every morning I collect the pieces generated overnight and decide which ones deserve to be published. And honestly, I never know in advance what's waiting for me. The machine follows precise rules, chance stays on a short leash, and yet the result surprises me. Again and again. That's exactly what I was after: rigour that still leaves room for the unexpected.
And what's it all about?
Deep down, the message fits in one line: we love maths. Not the school kind that makes you sweat, the kind that makes something beautiful when you let it speak. Code isn't just my tool: it's my studio partner. I set the rules, it proposes shapes, and together we decide what stays.
My influences? My own passion, mostly. Numbers, curves, the patterns that keep coming back everywhere, in nature as much as on a screen.
Why limited, numbered editions?
It matters to me that whatever you hang on your wall is rare. Each piece is released in a limited, numbered edition and comes with a signed certificate of authenticity. It's my way of saying this piece is truly yours, that it won't dissolve into thousands of copies. Number 3 of 30 is number 3 of 30. Full stop.
Quality, no botch-jobs
For printing, I work with serious partners and real gear: good paper, good inks, a finish that holds up. I could have rigged up a shaky home-made chain, but no. What you receive has to last and live up to what you see on screen. That's not up for debate.
How does it work, behind the scenes?
Picture a very precise recipe. I give the computer a method and a small dose of chance, boxed in by limits I set myself. Out comes an image, different every time, but always true to the recipe.
Then each piece gets a unique fingerprint, a kind of ID card that can't be copied, followed by a digital signature proving it really comes from my studio. A partner prints it on fine paper, and off it goes to you. Nothing is left to chance... except chance itself. And that's on purpose.
Behind all that, there's real work: designing the algorithms, tuning the colours, sorting, validating, starting over. The gesture is invisible, but it's there, every single day.
Why no photo of me?
You won't see my face here, and that's deliberate. I'd rather let the work speak for me. That's the studio's identity. Not me.
We'll see.