Step

etching
1994, Amsterdam
cca 10m x 6m
in the collection of Osaka Graphic Triennale Foundation

The artwork

The print was made by three clichées, they were the visible sides of the axonometric cube. It was printed in Amsterdam, in the graphic workshop of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. The artwork won the bronze prize of the Osaka Graphic Triennale.

The system

The step 'warps' into a cubus. The placing of the unity cubes are determined by a mathematical method. Its important element is the random. There was very probably, that the steps will turn into the cubus, but the single cubes were randomly placed. Like a hourglass: Clear, that every grain of sand goes to the lower pot, but there is quite hard to know, in which order.