Kumiko 01
The first of a four-figure series drawn from kumiko — the Japanese wooden lattice tradition, translated into a flat repeating surface design.
Kumiko is the Japanese tradition of assembling small slivers of wood — no nails, no glue — into intricate geometric lattice panels for screens, doors, and transoms. The figures repeat across the panel, each one cut to a few precise angles.
This is the first of a four-figure series. The drawing takes the kumiko logic out of three dimensions and into a flat surface — what the wooden craft does with light and shadow becomes pure line work.
At jewelry scale one figure lifts out as a pendant. At architectural scale the same drawing carries a screen, a wall inset, or a translucent panel.
The same patience that fills a pendant fills a panel.