"Breaking Ranks" Abstract Green and Blue Letter Type MonoPrint 16.5x18.25 inches

Title: Breaking Ranks
Description:
Breaking Ranks is a gradient monoprint composed from reclaimed fragments of vintage letterpress type—blocks once meant to sit in neat, disciplined rows. In this piece, those forms slip out of alignment, drifting from order into disruption. The print moves from a dense, dark cluster on the left into looser, more structured vertical patterns on the right, creating a visual transition from chaos to formation—or perhaps the reverse.

The subtle shift in green tones amplifies the tension: darker hues gather where the pieces scatter and collide, while lighter greens stretch into elongated columns that feel like ranks attempting to reorganize. Yet stray blocks continue to wander, defying the grid and breaking away from the implied structure.

Breaking Ranks becomes a meditation on divergence—on the moment when a system begins to unravel, evolve, or rebel against its own boundaries. These old pieces of type, once bound to strict linearity, now express individuality and movement, honoring their history by challenging it.