Grid 1
2020

The grid itself is a framework of spaced parallel bars and serves as a readymade and default mode function. It fundamentally operates as a foundational structure through which geometry, proportion, and order are established. Once introduced, however, it becomes difficult to escape its logic. Almost anything constructed upon it tends to acquire a sense of precision and regularity. Given the extensive history of the grid across architecture, engineering, art, and design, the question for me became how such a familiar form could be made my own.

The series of graph drawings shown here is my continuous exploration on deconstructing cartesian grid structure through subtly distorting its visual static nature. Rather than visibly disrupting its geometry, the irregularities remain deliberately concealed within an apparently coherent structure. At first encounter, the surface appears to follow the logic of a conventional grid. It is only when another form is drawn upon it that the underlying deviations become perceptible. The superimposed drawing consequently acts as a device that reveals what was previously almost impossible to see.

The work thus plays with this very familiarity and recognition, using an established visual system only to quietly alter its internal logic. The distortion is not presented as an obvious rupture but as a latent condition, activated through perception. In further continuation of the series, the hue was changed and explored as well, destabilising the apparent neutrality of the grid and questioning how inherited systems of order can be recognised, manipulated, and made one’s own, through the work.