Details
The image
Striped bands drawn at precise angles, arranged so that a flat sheet appears to contain a solid object floating in the middle of it. The lettering plays the same game: a word repeated and inverted until it reads as pattern before it reads as language.
Where it comes from
Scandinavian exhibition graphics of the post-war decades had a taste for optical games, borrowed from op art and from the psychology of perception that was fashionable at the time. Designers used them deliberately: a poster that appears to move holds attention in a corridor, and an image that resolves itself slowly rewards a second look. The technique depended on printing precision, which the best northern European printers could supply.
On the wall
It suits a study, an office or a hallway, where an optical image gives a wall movement without colour. Because the composition is geometric and the palette reduced, it holds a large wall without weight. In a group it should be the piece that introduces tension.
In company
The rest of the Geometric collection holds pieces from the same years and the same printing habits.Avoid hanging it in a corridor where people walk quickly past: the illusion needs a moment of attention to work.
