Soft Light by Henry Lees Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Hand-Drawn with Gears and Pigment Inks Dimensions: 16.5 x 30 cm Year: 2025 Price: $300.00 USD Status: available This work demonstrates possible variances within the same emergent pattern dependant in which different elements are chosen to be highlighted to a fixed set of rules. The work appears to emit an effect similar to the scintillating grid illusion, however the exagerated moiré softens that effect, to resemble soft light shining through different materials. Why collect this work?Soft Light builds apparent illumination from a vertical redistribution of black and white. A repeated linear system changes from airy mesh to dense pattern, so brightness registers as a structural event rather than a depicted beam. According to his profile, Henry Lees combines gears with handwork and introduces choice into rule-based systems. That framework helps explain the coexistence of regular recurrence and conspicuous tonal change here.The photograph shows a tall rectangular field of nested, crossing curves. Its sparse upper section gives way abruptly to black-dominant bands, where narrow white openings seem to pulse against their surroundings.Catalogued as pigment ink drawn by hand with gears, the method permits related curves to recur at close intervals. Their accumulation makes overlap function as shading without conventional modelling.Dated 2025 and measuring 16.5 by 30 centimetres in the catalogue, the work provides a concise case study in how a fixed vocabulary can generate markedly different optical readings through density alone. About the ArtistHenry Lees Henry Lees is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: mixed-media. Based in Leicester, GB. Nationality: British Hand-crafted generative art
