Quartier

Lumen & Logic

A city district drawn on the back of its own survey grid, in pen and crayon on white paper. One irregular set of vertical and horizontal rails is ruled across the sheet and three unlike families read it. An all-over field of freehand tally strokes runs along the rails in hairline, medium and heavy weights, crossing and overshooting every intersection so the page fills with open crosses and tees rather than closed boxes, often doubled and tripled into bundles that read as one edge drawn and redrawn. A register of outlined pen buildings stands on the skyline, one column wide and several rows tall, each packed with one hand-drawn fill — fine parallel hatch, diagonal hatch, columns of oval windows, grids of circles or dots, dash rows, stacked waves, a nested box, or hatch dense enough to fuse into a solid — a few carrying a crude sheared side flap, with small grey staircases stepping up at the roofline. And a band across the lower middle is piled with colour blocks filled in waxy crayon: parallel passes laid along the block, overrunning one edge and falling short of the other so coverage is streaky and the painted shape is softer and larger than the cell that made it, a third of them crossed by a lighter second grain, many overprinted with the same pen motifs and wrapped in a wobbly outline that misregisters against the colour. The band is piled to a ragged skyline and thins to bare paper at its foot and margins, a tenth of its cells left unpainted so pale towers stand inside the mass, and hue runs in short local clusters rather than scattering. The tally field is split stroke by stroke into one pass drawn before the colour and one drawn after it, so the same lattice is at once the paper the district is drawn on and the scaffold standing in front of it. No perspective, no shading, no gradient, no blur and no blend mode: the softness is stroke overlap and the only depth cue is overlap.

Medium

Generative algorithm, archival pigment print

Dimensions

90 × 90 cm