Modula 4_Yellow-Blue

9" x 9" — hand-pulled silkscreen on Lenox 100, 250gsm
Galactic Gold Yellow / Neptune Blue, HSA water-based inks
One of one, 1/1
Part of Modula, an ongoing series of geometric forms built for modular variation

Six concentric hexagons, nested one inside the next, pull the eye toward a single point at center. No circle, no soft curve anywhere in the piece, every edge is straight, every turn is sharp, and yet the cumulative effect is anything but rigid. Repetition does what curvature usually does: it creates motion out of a shape that, taken alone, is completely static.

This is the most purely optical of the Modula forms. The hexagon is one of geometry’s most stable shapes, six equal sides, perfect symmetry, but stack enough of them inside one another and stability tips into vibration. The lines seem to pulse, recede, and advance depending on how long you look, an effect built entirely from spacing and repetition, with no actual movement anywhere on the page.

Galactic Gold Yellow holds the field, warm and even. Neptune Blue traces each ring with total precision, a hard, cool line against a warm ground, which sharpens the optical pull even further. The contrast isn’t just visual, it’s perceptual: blue advances, yellow recedes, and the hexagons seem to hover slightly off the surface rather than sit flat on it.

Hand-pulled, one layer at a time, on 250gsm Lenox 100, printed at the MGC Community Print Studio at PowerHouse Arts in Brooklyn. No two pulls of a silkscreen are ever pixel-identical, each one carries its own trace of the hand that pulled it.