Midnight Light Poster

A mosaic of small rectangles builds into something between a cityscape and a circuit board. Bands of olive, teal, oxblood and black stack horizontally, broken by white and silver tiles and interrupted by broad strokes of gold leaf along the top and bottom edges. Up close the surface is all plaster texture and hard edges; from across the room the blocks resolve into a skyline at dusk. The darkest piece in the series, and the most structured. The gold stops it from reading as grey. Of the three it is the one that rewards standing close, where the tiles resolve into separate blocks.

This one wants a wall with some distance in front of it, so a living room or a study rather than a narrow hallway. The dark blocks hold up against strong furniture, and olive and oxblood tie it to leather, brass and dark green textiles. A black frame is the obvious choice and the safest; oak softens the grid if the room is already hard. Hung last in the three-part series it gives the row somewhere to end.