Black Geometry 2

BLACK GEOMETRY 2
Crop circles don't arrive in chaos. They arrive in extraordinary precision — concentric circles measured to within millimetres, geometric progressions that follow mathematical ratios found nowhere else in the surrounding landscape. Whatever intelligence is encoding these formations into the Earth understands something about the relationship between the circle and the line, between repetition and structure, that our mathematics is still catching up to.
Black Geometry 2 received that precision.
Within a structured rectangular field, vertical lines and concentric circles hold their positions on a deep black ground with the exactness of something transmitted, not composed. Cream and white emerge from the darkness — warm against stark, fluid against precise — the particular contrast of things that belong together despite appearing to be opposites. The rectangular frame within the composition reads like a portal or a container, a boundary drawn not to limit what is inside but to concentrate it.
Built with acrylic, gesso, sodium bicarbonate and medium gel on wood panel, the surface carries the now-familiar textural depth of the series — layers that reward proximity, a ground that has been physically worked into something between painting and relief. The cream tones warm the black without softening it. The white lines cut through both with the clarity of a signal that knows exactly where it is going.
In every ancient tradition that encoded knowledge into geometry, the circle and the vertical line appear together. They have always meant something. They still do.
A3 (29.7 × 42 cm) · Acrylic, gesso, sodium bicarbonate and medium gel on wood panel · 2024 · One of a kind Presented in a black wood tray frame. Signed, titled and dated on the reverse. Certificate of Authenticity included.