Day Garden #22

Description: Tyler Hobbs’ latest series explores minimalist geometric abstraction through a soft, carefully considered palette—warm creams, muted pinks, and subtle interplay of line and plane. The works feel architectural in their structure but quiet in mood, emphasizing balance, restraint, and surface. Building on ideas from Incomplete Control and iostream, Hobbs crafts a generative algorithm to uncover compositional arrangements he might not have originally arrived at.

Though the series is digital, Hobbs is deeply focused on how the work feels—both visually and physically. The compositions range from stable and centered to subtly off-balance in ways that feel intentional and unexpected. With such minimal structure, the texture and color take on more weight; slight shifts in tone or surface detail become central to the experience. Hobbs isn’t trying to imitate analog materials, but he is aiming for a richness that feels tactile—something that carries depth and variation within a digital language.

By printing on wood panels, he’s grounding the work in a natural material that complements its warmth without masking its digital origins. For Hobbs, it’s important that the work exists in lived space, not just on a screen. He’s thinking about an ideal way to view it and how collectors will spend time with it—how it can become part of a space, seen and re-seen over time.