Title: Traffic Jam
Description:
Traffic Jam is a densely packed monoprint created from salvaged fragments of vintage letterpress type—small blocks once arranged with precision now pressed into a chaotic, interlocking grid. Printed in a deep, inky blue, the composition feels like an aerial view of congestion: shapes crowding, pressing, and piling against one another in every direction.

Each block carries the worn history of its previous life, but here their edges overlap and collide, creating a sense of pressure and movement held in suspension. The eye navigates the maze of tight clusters and narrow gaps, mirroring the experience of trying to find a path through a gridlocked system. Despite the compression, subtle rhythms emerge—patterns that echo the unpredictable order found in real-world traffic, human systems, or even thought itself.

Traffic Jam captures that moment where momentum halts, density builds, and complexity becomes the defining structure. It transforms old printing tools into a contemporary reflection on movement, limits, and the beauty hidden inside even the most crowded spaces.