Jalousie

Lumen & Logic

One tall carved mask on a plain ground, filled edge to edge by the product of two rulings. A dense stack of flat horizontal slats of uneven height — most middling, a clustering minority reduced to hairlines — runs from crown to chin, and a sparse pencil of long straight cuts, one of them always the vertical centre line and one or two of them bent at the brow, crosses the entire figure without stopping at anything. Every cell is a slat sheared by the cuts: horizontal top and bottom, slanted sides. Colour is the product of the two indices — the region of the line arrangement a cell falls in supplies its hue family, the slat it belongs to supplies its value along a walk down the stack — so the picture reads as six or seven large angular masses at a distance and as two hundred stripes up close, though neither was ever drawn as a shape. A small share of cells step one value off their slat and a smaller share take a saturated out-of-family ink, dropping isolated magentas and teals into a cool field. Flanking slabs project at the cheeks over a hairline of ground, a stand carries the chin, white rules snap to slat boundaries and cross the figure edge to edge, and four flat mirrored marks sit on top: half-disc eyes in a bed of near-black slats, a long tapered nose that re-reads the same slats in pale tints, and lips split into two hot inks at the centre. Every fill is opaque and every edge is hard.

Medium

Generative algorithm, archival pigment print

Dimensions

60 × 90 cm