Serpent Bloom

Lumen & Logic

A one-ink screen-print poster: a single tapering ribbon wound into a chain of alternating loops, with a solid radial rosette nested inside every loop it encloses. The spine is a chain of near-complete rings whose mouths face their neighbours, threaded onto one spline; consecutive rings deliberately overlap, so the body runs across itself and the coil crosses rather than spirals. The ribbon is opaque and is sliced at its own self-intersections into chunks that repaint in alternating parity, so it weaves over and under itself and depth is occlusion alone — no shadow, no transparency, no size cue. It swells at the blunt head, breathes through the loops and narrows to a curled point at the tail. The interior carries one of five skins — a lozenge scale net, nested chevrons, cross-body bands, studded stipple rows or raked hatching — every one drawn in the body’s own arclength-and-lateral frame, so the pattern shears round each bend and stays registered with the outline rather than reading as a flat texture the shape was cut from. Each loop eye is measured against the whole body and filled by the largest rosette that clears it: rings of solid cut-paper petals from one of five families — daisy, ray, cog, spiral eye or pinwheel — around a core of bare ground. Half-fan sprigs on short stalks weight whatever open ground the coil leaves. The panel sits inside a flat mat with a fine ruled keyline, and every edge is walked with a slight hand tremor so the sheet reads as a pulled print. The coil lays out as a serpentine, a spiral, a figure eight or a wander.

Medium

Generative algorithm, archival pigment print

Dimensions

60 × 90 cm