Springtime Lattice

24 in x 24 in

1/2026

“Springtime Lattice” is a celebration of delicacy and order done in a pastel palette reminiscent of spring: new light, early blooms, and the washed clarity of cool air. I laid down the grid in a ordered way: red-orange-yellow-green-blue-purple and then back to red, each mixed with a substantial amount of titanium white to soften the hues. By evenly distributing the colors across the grid, my intention was to prevent any single color from dominating, giving the sensation is one of ambient light rather than local color. The repetition of these tones, square by square, mimics the slow emergence of a landscape as winter recedes: incremental, measured, but inexorable. The painting is organized around a strict lattice of squares and diagonals that divide the field into larger triangular units. This lattice functions almost like an overlaid woven structure. By including diagonal lines, the viewer encounters a system of vectors that push vision inward and outward, across and through the surface. The white, raised triangular forms punctuate otherwise flat color fields, introducing a tactile dimension that breaks the painting’s purity of planar geometry. Their slight impasto catches light differently from the matte ground, so the work changes subtly as the viewer moves. These textured triangles (and the white lines) read as snow or fragments of frost, implying that spring is not necessarily an accomplished fact but a moment of transition when residual cold still clings to the architecture of the scene.  “Springtime Lattice” combines emotional associations of spring—renewal, lightness, fragility—onto an almost mathematical framework. The work can be read as a meditation on how organic experiences (seasons, growth, memory) are held within structures: calendars, grids, clinical charts, or architectural frameworks. Even within strict systems, moments of subtle, sensuous emergence remain possible.