Concept study · 2026

Point, Line, Space

Evenly spaced straight lines join points on a left edge to points on a bottom edge. Their crowding leaves a smooth curve bending toward the corner, in pale lines on blue-grey.

A curve you never draw: straight lines, spaced evenly between two edges, leave a curved edge behind them.

Draw only straight lines and a curve still appears. Space the lines evenly between two edges and the places where they crowd together read as a smooth curved edge that no single line ever follows.

The three studies below are made the same way: pick points on two edges, join them in order, and stop. Scroll to draw each one line by line.

Corner

Evenly spaced points down the left edge are joined, in order, to evenly spaced points along the bottom edge. Each line is straight; the curve is the edge they leave behind.

Corner: straight lines from the left edge to the bottom edge, drawn one by one

Wing

Two mirrored sets of lines meet at the centre. Doubling the corner study gives a shape like the line of a roof.

Two mirrored sets of straight lines, one from each side edge, cross the middle. The curved edges they leave meet like the line of a roof, in dark lines on sand. — Wing: two mirrored sets of lines meeting at the centre

Wing: two mirrored sets of straight lines, drawn one by one

Fan

Here a single point reaches a row of points and then a column of points: point, then line, then space.

Straight lines fan out from a single point at the top left to a row of points along the bottom, then to a column of points along the right edge, in pale lines on near black. — Fan: one point reaching a row, then a column

Fan: straight lines from one point to a row and then a column, drawn one by one

From lines to a surface

The same idea carried into three dimensions: a twisted surface made only of straight lines. Drag it to look around, or scroll to turn it.