Wavy, ribbon and curly grain are byproducts of spiral grain that reverses itself periodically as a tree grows to produce a thing called interlocked grain.
The artist makes her versions from salvaged precious metals that are twisted, pounded and interlocked with found objects from the natural world, looking like mutant effigies pulled from the well-appointed rubble of a millionaire's junkyard.
Interlocked components of GPS, traffic surveillance and flow management could optimize rivers of automobiles to lessen jams and feed cars onto roads with extra capacity -- all informed by an intelligent overview that gets you to your destination quickest by routes you could never compute yourself.