Relief Burner

Lumen & Logic

A wildstyle graffiti burner cut in bas-relief. Every mark in the piece is one primitive — a bar of constant width following a sharply-bent polyline spine, whose top surface folds along that spine into two long faces so each takes its own flat tone from a single-hue luminance ramp by how its tilt catches a fixed upper-left light. A crisp chamfer strip of the palest tone runs along whichever long edge faces the light and the deepest along the opposite one, and beneath the top surface an extruded side wall in the darkest tone lifts the bar off the wall. Most ends spike into a faceted graffiti arrowhead — two barbs swept back from a long apex — and the rest are cut off on a chisel slant. Bars are opaque and stack back to front, so depth is occlusion alone, and they interlock into a dense spiky cluster laid out by one of four families chosen by seed: a sheared burner on a shallow baseline, a chained bolt running one diagonal, a radiating wheel, or a loose scatter. Underneath, the panel is machined with concentric circular steps whose risers brighten to a hairline where they face the light and lay a soft band of shadow on the opposite side, and the whole mass throws one wide diffuse shadow down-right onto it. Finally, paint runs bleed straight off the mass’s own bottom silhouette in the deepest tone, tapering as they fall and ending in a beaded drop.

Medium

Generative algorithm, archival pigment print

Dimensions

90 × 90 cm