Jointed Idol

Lumen & Logic

A modernist cubo-figurative panel on raw cream canvas: a jointed idol assembled from four primitive volumes — a vesica lens, an ovoid, a tapered round-capped band and a raked paddle hand — posed by a seeded skeleton over a large rounded slab. One global family of long, gently curved arcs is then laid across the whole panel, and every shape it touches is sliced by it: the slab, the limbs and the head are all broken into flat fields by the same curves at the same places, so a cut runs on through from the slab into the limb above it and the panel reads as one fractured plane rather than as a stack of decorated cut-outs. Parts are opaque and painted back to front, so depth is occlusion alone — no shading, no gradient, no transparency, no perspective. Every facet takes one flat chalky ink — mustard, tan and putty against deep violet, dark plum and near-black brown, with grey-pink and warm taupe between them — chosen so no two neighbours are a near-match, which is what lets the cuts stay legible with nothing drawn on them. A cream hairline traces the silhouette of every part and the gap between every digit, and appears nowhere else: the internal cuts carry no line and the slab carries none either. Some facets are painted in the ground colour, and the face is one of them — a negative scoop in the head with no feature drawn on it at all. A dry scumble and a canvas weave sit under everything at a contrast low enough that the fields still read flat.

Medium

Generative algorithm, archival pigment print

Dimensions

60 × 90 cm