Reticle

Lumen & Logic

A dark instrument plate built by subtraction. The plate is banded into registers and each register is cut by recursive guillotine subdivision into rectangles that are hatched with parallel hairlines at quantised pitches, filled flat, or left as bare ground — with subdivision depth varying by an order of magnitude between neighbours, so large calm blocks sit against passages of near-illegible fineness. Long straight faults then cross the whole plate and take entire wedges of that field away back to bare ground, slicing blocks mid-block so hatch lines terminate on the diagonal. Inside the bare wedges, and only there, sit pencils of circle outlines that all pass through one common point: geometric radii and a constant angular advance give each family a dense rosette knot at the small end and a logarithmic fan at the large end. Fragments of the field spill into the margins as rows of offcuts. Three inks — sand, cyan and grey — flat and opaque on near-black; no gradients, no glow, no transparency, no curves except the pencils.

Medium

Generative algorithm, archival pigment print

Dimensions

60 × 90 cm