Shippo

Circles laid on a square grid so each one overlaps its four neighbors at their centers. The overlaps open into a lattice of pointed-oval petals and small four-pointed stars, and the circles themselves recede - what reads is the linked field, not any single ring.

The figure is shippō - “seven treasures” - a staple of Japanese kimono, sashiko, and textile design, read there as connection and continuing good fortune. It is a square-grid lattice, not the hexagonal flower of the crystal-shop trade; the structure underneath is a grid of overlapping circles, endlessly linking.

At architectural scale the linked circles carry a screen, a tiled floor, a woven cloth. At jewelry scale one square of the field, cut from sheet metal, holds the overlap and the lattice in a single piece.