Crease Lattice

Lumen & Logic

A sheet of fine graph paper crumpled flat. One displaced quad lattice fills the page, and every cell is filled by bilinearly mapping a unit grid of hairlines onto its own four corners — so the little grid shears, squashes and tilts exactly as the cell does, and each cell reads as a torn square of graph paper seen at an angle rather than as a flat tile. Cell tone is carried by hatch weight, not fill: pale cells are hairlines on bare paper, dark ones have strokes so heavy they fuse into a near-solid block. The lattice is displaced by a coherent height field — soft lobes several cells wide, plus a handful of hard near-vertical crease lines that pinch whole columns of cells to slivers — and gathered, so column widths and row heights run unequal like fabric drawn on a thread. That same height field lights the sheet from the upper left, darkens cells the fold compresses, and sorts them back to front, so raised cells swell slightly and overlap their neighbours and the sharpest folds read as hard black creases. Colour is one hue-and-luminance ramp along a chosen axis, deep indigo through violet to magenta, mottled by a slow independent field so the tone clusters into shadowed and lit regions. The lattice is laid out as a plain grid, a running bond, a sheared parallelogram field or a polar ring-and-spoke web, and its silhouette is left ragged — border cells jut, pull in, or drop out entirely — on bare paper with a wide margin.

Medium

Generative algorithm, archival pigment print

Dimensions

60 × 90 cm