Tessellations is an original animated work created by Madagascar-based French artist Thomas Auvin, commissioned by First Dimension Foundation to explore the boundary between pattern and consciousness, repetition and transformation. Inspired by the visual language of M.C. Escher, the film opens within an infinite tessellation of interlocking rabbits, a world of pure geometry and design. From this patterned universe, one rabbit breaks free, awakening into a living, breathing world where it encounters an equal and opposite counterpart.

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Their meeting becomes a moment of recognition, tension, and possibility, set against a landscape that feels both mythic and intimate. After their encounter, the rabbit returns to the tessellated plane, suggesting a passage between states, a cyclical journey reminiscent of a bardo, the transitional space between worlds in Buddhist thought. The film plays with dualities: order and chaos, individuality and collective form, stillness and becoming.

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As part of the Foundation’s commitment to fostering ambitious interdisciplinary work, Tessellations brings together animation, narrative, visual philosophy, and contemporary composition. The project exemplifies our mission to support artists who expand the dimensionality of storytelling, artists who merge the structural rigor of mathematics with the emotional depth of human experience.

Through screenings, educational materials, and future collaborations across music, film, and digital media, Tessellations invites audiences to reflect on transformation.​

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By supporting this film, First Dimension Foundation champions new forms of creative inquiry and builds bridges between global artistic voices, mathematical imagination, and contemporary mythmaking.