Coffer

Lumen & Logic

One ruled surface, cut up and re-aimed. A sheet is partitioned into rectangular fields by guillotine cuts snapped to the ruling's own period, and every field is filled by the same primitive: a guide polyline stroked again and again as it is translated away from itself, once per entry of a single global cycle of line colours and widths. The vocabulary of guides is closed by one rule — within a guide, every segment's normal must make the same angle with the sweep direction — so a side, a 45° diagonal, a right-angled L, a chevron and a staircase can all be offset by nothing more than a translation, their mitred corners staying exactly coincident as they nest, and only a frame, whose opposite sides move opposite ways, needs an inset instead. Because the cycle and its period are global and the cuts land on that period, the ruling reads as one system across the whole sheet, and what distinguishes one field from its neighbour is only where it aims its bundle and which entry of the cycle it starts on — so one field comes up hairline-red and the next comes up broad blue without a new colour entering anywhere. The perimeter is a single inset frame, which is why every corner of the sheet carries the same nest of mitres, and every field boundary is finally ruled in the cycle's thinnest, darkest line, so the picture reads as a drawn plan of a partition rather than as patches that happen to abut. Flat and hard-edged throughout: every mark is a butt-capped straight stroke, and the ground shows through the cycle's gaps as bare paper — no curve, no gradient, no transparency, no relief, no texture.

Medium

Generative algorithm, archival pigment print

Dimensions

60 × 90 cm