The Cosmic Landscape Puzzle
MDF, linocut
size of board: 100x100x3cm

The Fragmented Landscape
flag book made using off-cuts from linocut prints
11x11x4.5cm (closed)

The Romantic Landscape I
etching
55x55cm

The Romantic Landscape II
etching
55x55cm

Children playing with The Cosmic Landscape Puzzle at The Muse Gallery

The Cosmic Landscape exhibited in TM Lighting Gallery, London

The Cosmic Landscapes

In this post you can see works related to the landscape:

The Cosmic Landscape Puzzle is an object that embodies the coexistence of the grid and the landscape. A graphic visual representation is being interrupted and rearranged by an abstract net. In a similar way, the map can be seen as a meeting point between the mechanical order of the latitude and longitude lines and a different kind of order, that of nature. I am interested in exploring this relationship between the physical and the ideal, organic forms and the strict perfection and precision of geometry, examining how these elements can coexist or contradict each other.

This puzzle is a multi-layered work that engages with these contradictions in its morphological and interactive qualities. As a collection of 81 squares that need to be reordered, it becomes a method to test out the dynamics between the human element, geometry and structure, challenging the relationship between all three.

The linocut print, being a black and white image, represents the landscape simultaneously in its plain and explicit character. MDF is used in its pure form, uncoloured, as a link to the notion of model making, both in terms of its material qualities and ideas around accessibility, plasticity, ease and scale. The puzzle is handmade to precision striving to get as close as possible to a manufactured result. Its materiality becomes a critical reflection on the mechanical precision of the grid in contrast to the imperfection of the human touch.

In this post you can also see a collection of prints inspired by ‘Chorography’, a type of mapmaking which stands between painting and geography, as it does not focus on the precise mathematical depiction relating to scale and location, but on the impression of how a particular region or terrain is perceived by the human eye. Such examples are Leonardo Da Vinci’s Chorographic maps of Tuscany and Valdichiana. (2021)