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Hi there! I am Meghan from Kansas, where I am a mom and an artist. I have a degree in Visual Communication and I was a graphic designer in a marketing agency for over 6 years. I started my studio Lathe & Quill in 2017 to embrace my eclectic curiosity. Since then I have found a love of drawing animals, dinosaurs, flowers, and space themes; and transforming the illustrations into detailed patterns.
Chamisa is the illustrator behind Zirkus Design, a studio based in the sunny southwest that focuses on surface design, lettering, and illustration. A southwest native, she has moved over 30 times, traveled to over 30 countries, and lived abroad in both Russia and Germany. She enjoys creating with ink and gouache as well as digitally on the iPad. Her style can be described as whimsical, sometimes cheeky or clever, but always with a lyrical, hand-drawn feel. Chamisa is inspired by her nerdy family, extensive travels, vintage illustrations, the natural world, kitchen experiments, and outdoor adventures with her family.
They're here! The fabulous 13,230 Digits of Pi dresses and shirts have arrived!
Read about how we created the new collection!
I had this “brilliant” idea to create a Pi design that would feature as many handwritten digits as I could fit into the maximum size rotary screen textile printer (72” by 34”). I had figured each number would be about 3” tall, so I would be able to fit about 1200 of them, nicely spaced, on the fabric....
As I worked, I enjoyed finding little familiarities, like zip codes and famous number sequences (24601!), and I marveled that my own zip code never came up - in fact, very few sequences of more than 4 numbers repeated. I particularly loved the funny section with six 9's in a row. And I thought often about the scale of what I was working on. My mind could barely comprehend thousandths - just the first three digits of Pi - 3.141. By the time I finished, the enormity (minisculity?) of the number I was copying gave me a new appreciation for Pi, its mystery, its profundity (life, the universe, and everything!).
I had this “brilliant” idea to create a Pi design that would feature as many handwritten digits as I could fit into the maximum size rotary screen textile printer (64” by 64”). I had figured each number would be about 3” tall, so I would be able to fit about 1000 of them, nicely spaced, on the fabric.
Will you join me in marveling at Pi, and helping me to make sure I copied it over correctly? There is just no way that I did this completely perfectly. I am a human being and I am sure I made some mistakes, probably during the hours when I was listening to my Civil War Podcast, or when my teenage son was reading the groups of numbers to me while also playing Clash Royale on his phone. Medieval scribes made all kinds of errors, from skipped words (leaving out non is a really big mistake!) to homeotelutons, and I’m sure I did the same.
A little rhyme written by our dear Ana Balich about the awesomeness that is toddlerdom with pockets....an excerpt:
Mom calls it junk, but really it’s treasure.
I need to hide it, cuz I’m feeling the pressure.
If Mom finds it first, she’s sure to act rash.
She’ll gather it up and it’ll go in the trash.
