Escarpment

Lumen & Logic

A hard-edge painted abstraction in which the entire sheet is one stack of parallel bands sheared by a single jagged step function, so every edge in the picture is a translated copy of the same profile — the terraces below the shear line, the boundaries of the shattered zone and the hairline rims that separate them all bend at the same places, and nothing in the frame carries a contour of its own. The profile is a stair-stepped polyline that crosses the sheet corner to corner and never doubles back, built from a small alphabet of repeated angles so the zigzag reads as designed rather than as noise; because the bands are translates rather than perpendicular offsets, a band widens where it runs shallow and narrows where it runs steep, and the tightest corners can never round off or collide. A contiguous run of bands straddling the line is not filled flat but shattered: treated as one region rather than as a stack, it is cut by straight chords that run clean across its whole width and converge on hubs sitting on the profile's own corners, so long near-parallel slivers open into splayed fans wherever the line turns, and a second generation of cuts breaks a share of the facets into small shards. Colour is two families kept apart: the terraces take a cool ladder that jumps rather than ramps, so a near-black navy sits straight against a pale sky; the facets take a warm run that drifts slowly along the bolt from orange through carmine to coral and cream, with adjacent facets forced to contrast and a scatter of green accents as the only cool note inside the hot mass. Two hairline bands — pale on the far side, near-black on the near — separate the two families, and they are bands in the same stack rather than outlines drawn on top. Every region is then combed with opaque tone-shifted hairlines along its own long axis so the paint reads as brushed rather than printed. Flat, straight-edged, opaque: no curves, no gradients, no transparency, no shadow, no outline, no noise.

Medium

Generative algorithm, archival pigment print

Dimensions

60 × 90 cm