Circles on black

Circles on black, Moderate Studio journal, 2016

A wallpaper design of fine white lines on black, overlapping circles and grids building up into a pattern like ripples crossing on dark water. Where the other prints are all solid colour, this one is nearly all empty black, the pattern drawn in thin bright line and left to breathe.

Printing white line onto black stock cleanly is its own small test, the ink has to sit up on the surface without spreading, and at this fineness there is nowhere to hide a wobble. Hung up, it does the quiet opposite of the primary-colour wallpaper, less a wall of colour than a dark surface with light drawn onto it.

Circles on black, Moderate Studio journal, 2016

Part of The Pattern Works.