Inca began after a journey to Cusco in Peru and an encounter with the monumental stone walls of Sacsayhuamán. Their scale and density are extraordinary, but so is their perceptual instability: the longer one looks, the more light, shadow and irregular geometry seem to alter the surface. The wall appears almost to shift and reorganise itself.

Returning to this experience, I constructed a grid digitally and reduced it to a black-and-white bitmap. Positive and negative versions of the same image were translated into zinc relief plates and printed in different colours and configurations using letterpress.

The resulting structure remained fixed while its appearance continually changed through colour, repetition, overlap and density. It was later translated into textiles, rugs, mirrors and furniture, moving from print into textile, object and space. Across these different materials and scales, the underlying geometry remains recognisable while each iteration becomes distinct.

2016–2022
Letterpress prints made from zinc relief plates on paper
Plates: 26 × 26 cm; paper dimensions vary slightly
Upholstery textile produced in Norway
Rugs hand-knotted in India
Limited-edition mirrors and furniture produced in Spain
Various dimensions