A tower that could not actually stand, built with the discipline of something that has to.
Blocks of cool blue stack up the frame, and the gaps between them get tighter as they climb. The rhythm speeds up. Your eye climbs with it, faster and faster, and then two-thirds of the way up a wide teal band arrives and simply stops the whole thing.
The place where the tower exhales
That teal band is the only wide interval in the piece. Everything below it is pressure; everything above it carries on calmly, like the argument got settled. Stand in front of it for ten seconds and you feel the pause before you can explain it.
Look at any edge where two colours meet. No bleed, no soft halo. The line was taped and measured before any colour went down; it was never drawn freehand. Look inside a block and there is no gradient at all, because Alex mixes every colour in full before the canvas. As he puts it: every line is measured, every proportion is a decision.
Charlotte, one of our critics, scored it and wrote: “The rhythm of intervals and color blocks makes it a stand-out piece for modern spaces.” Average score across the panel, 8.33.
What happens once it is up
Portrait, so it suits the narrow wall most people give up on — beside a door, at the end of a hallway, above a console. A useful rule: hang the middle of the image at eye level and keep it about two-thirds the width of whatever furniture sits below.
It is matte, so a lamp or a window opposite gives you the picture back, not a glare. The image wraps the edges and it arrives stretched over solid wood, 1.25 inches deep, ready to hang — one nail, two minutes, no framer and no surprise bill. Made to order, up to ten business days, free shipping in the continental US.
Sizes and the price
The 18 x 24 in (46 x 61 cm) is preselected and suits most walls. Smaller, 12 x 16 in (30 x 41 cm) at $129. Bigger, 24 x 32 in (61 x 81 cm) at $229, which is where the grid really gets scale. The middle one is $149 — a high quality print of a digital artwork, and that is the price, with nobody bidding against you.
One honest thing
This is not for a cluttered or sentimental room, and not for anyone who wants to see the hand shake. Nothing here wobbles on purpose.
If order is what you are after, take it home. If you want to see how Alex handles other intervals first, his other work is on printasso.com — or follow him and the next one turns up in front of you before anyone else sees it.
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