Abstract art from your words

Type anything. It becomes a painting.

A name, a date, a line from a song. The same words always make the same painting, and only you know what's hidden in it.

More from random words

Tap any piece to see it large, share it or gift it.

Make it a gift

A painting with a secret only they can open

Maya & Leo · 2019

1. Type your words

Your names and the year you met, a line from your vows, the street you grew up on. They become a painting no one else can make.
2. Send it as a message

One tap sends a link by WhatsApp, iMessage or any messaging app. It arrives as the painting itself, and the words stay sealed inside it, even from us.
3. They open it and see your words

The link opens their painting with your words beneath it, and lets them make one back. Only the people you send it to can read them.

Generative art prints

Abstract art for calm rooms, personal gifts and design projects

Sage green marbled circle on a cream background, a minimalist abstract art print — “a slow river” · sage and moss

Warm sand and umber swirl with a pale blue streak, neutral abstract wall art — “north window” · sand and umber

Seafoam and teal contour lines like a coastal map, calm abstract print — “morning coffee” · seafoam contours

Grey-blue swirl inside an arch with a saffron ribbon, modern arch wall art — “moss and stone” · arch, grey and saffron

For your home

Quiet, nature-toned abstract wall art in sage, clay, linen, sand and tide. Organic shapes that sit easily in a living room, bedroom or reading nook, from minimalist and Japandi spaces to warm, earthy ones. Prints are coming soon.

As a personal gift

Turn a name, a wedding date, your vows or the street you grew up on into a painting that is theirs alone. The words stay hidden inside the art; send the private link and key, and only they can reveal them. For anniversaries, weddings, a new baby or a housewarming.

For designers and architects

Palette-led series that hold together across a room: pairs, sets of three, consistent colourways. Interior designers, graphic designers and architects: ask about custom colourways, large formats and artwork for your renderings on X or Pinterest.

Questions

Can I buy a print of my painting?

Prints are coming soon, printed close to you so there are no customs fees. Join the list and you'll hear first.

What words should I use?

Anything that means something to you: a name, a date, a place, a line from a song or a private joke. Every letter changes the painting, so "Maya" and "maya" make two different pieces.

Will anyone else get the same painting?

Only if they type exactly the same words. The same words always make the same painting, forever, which is what makes it yours.

Is this AI-generated art?

No. Every piece is drawn by code, a fixed set of rules with a measured dose of chance, in the tradition of generative art. Nothing is copied from anyone else's images. More about how it's made.

Can I use Squigglegram art in an interior or architecture project?

Yes, get in touch about custom colourways, large-format prints and licensed images for client presentations and renderings.

How it works

Every image starts from the same mathematics: fractal noise, the same texture at every scale, used to bend itself and then bent again. Seven independent traits decide how the pigment moves, how it is drawn, its colours, its light, its scale, its frame and its surface.

Traits are chosen independently, so some pairings are rare: gilded veins through Night Fern under an arch, say, or split-accent contour lines on a low-key ground. Values well below their trait's average share are marked in red.

About

Squigglegram

Every piece hides the words that created it.

Type any message and it creates a one-of-a-kind image. Share the art anywhere; the words stay hidden. Only someone who knows them can create the same piece again.

Gift it: open a piece and send its private link and key. Together they reveal your words, and the print.

Not AI art

Every image here is drawn by code: a fixed set of rules with a measured dose of chance built in. It belongs to a long tradition called generative art. No AI image generator or large language model makes these pictures. Your words become four numbers, and those numbers steer the rules, so the same words always create the same piece, and nothing is copied from anyone else's images.

The artist

I'm a full-time family physician, I run a large clinic, and I'm a father of two. Time is the one thing I never have.

Art came first, though. In high school I had a visual arts scholarship, and one of my paintings still hangs there. I chose the sciences instead, and medicine took over.

In 2021 I discovered generative art: you write the rules, and the system paints within them. Now AI tools help me write and refine that code faster, so the little time I have turns into finished pieces. The images themselves come only from the code.

What I love most is that it's participatory. I build the system; you bring the words. Every piece here is made by both of us.

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