Painting

Lattice of Shifting Light

Diagonal bands of color weave across this canvas in a deliberate lattice pattern, each stripe crossing over and under the next like some luminous textile pulled from another dimension. Violet, rose pink, gold-green, ice blue, and soft lavender intersect at sharp angles, creating diamond shapes where the overlapping layers produce entirely new hues. The geometry is structured but not rigid — there's a handmade warmth to the crossings, a human rhythm in the way the bands vary in width and opacity. This piece is built entirely with Golden Interference acrylics, and the lattice structure amplifies the color-shifting properties in a way that's almost disorienting. Each diamond intersection holds two or three interference layers stacked on top of each other, so a single zone might read as pale gold from one angle, shift to cool violet from another, and settle into a ghostly blue-green as you walk past. The whole surface breathes and reorganizes itself depending on your position in the room and the quality of light falling across it. Photos catch maybe a third of what this piece actually does. The technique here involved building the lattice in deliberate diagonal passes — each band laid down with a wide, flat stroke, then allowed to set before the next crossing layer was applied. The interference pigments are thin and translucent by nature, so where bands overlap, you get these complex optical stacks rather than muddy mixtures. The close-up shots reveal the canvas weave still visible through the paint, every fiber catching and scattering the interference particles differently. It's controlled geometry with unpredictable optical results. Painted at my homestead in Riverside, Washington, where the light through the windows shifts all day long and a piece like this never looks the same twice.