Lattice
A city plan drawn by chance — white circuitry threading itself across the dark.
About the piece
Lattice is what happens when you ask the computer to plan a city and refuse to give it zoning laws. Verticals and horizontals are thrown down at random intervals, each one stopping where another begins, with a node lit wherever two lines meet.
Printed large and hung in a dark room, it stops looking like a diagram and starts looking like a night flight over somewhere unfamiliar.
Details
The ground is a rich near-black — never pure — so the white lines sit in it rather than on it. Each edition uses a distinct seed, which means no two prints share the same street plan.
Best hung large: the piece is composed for 100cm square and holds its nerve all the way up.
Throw the lines
Random verticals and horizontals with chance-governed extents, seeded for balance.
Light the nodes
Every meeting point gets a dot — the constellation the streets imply.
Print in the dark
Proofed for deep blacks; the ground must swallow the room’s light.
“We commissioned a Lattice variant for our office atrium. It reads as infrastructure and as art at the same time — exactly our language.” — Tobias Lindqvist, founder, Northline Studio
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Site-specific seeds and scales for workplaces, lobbies and public walls.