Exes More

A second pass over the original Exes tile — the cross-and-bar geometry thickened so the lines start to read as woven instead of stamped. Where the first version was open and skeletal, this one feels like ironwork or basket weave.

The motif sits in a long lineage of crossed-bar patterns: mid-century breeze blocks, woven textiles, ironwork screens. Once the bars have enough weight, the eye reads them as interlaced — strands passing over and under each other, even though the drawing is flat.

At architectural scale the weave reads as a screen or gate. At jewelry scale the interlace becomes the silhouette of the piece itself — solid metal cut so the bars carry the weight and the openings frame what’s underneath.