Diagonal Architecture

A formal investigation of structural geometry carried out through carved relief printing. The diagonal axis, long associated in pictorial tradition with movement and instability, is here proposed as an architectural principle rather than as incidental compositional device. Qian's mathematics training informs the systematic treatment of angle and proportion, while the woodblock medium contributes the fibrous tool-edge characteristic of hand-carved relief. The composition likely presents tilted or rotated planes registered against a flat ground, the carving's gouge marks visible along slanted boundaries where one printed layer meets another. Within Qian's broader practice, the print belongs alongside his investigations of grid and lattice, but inverted: where 'Chance and Grids' submits regular structure to disruption, 'Diagonal Architecture' foregrounds the disrupted axis itself as the organizing structural element, asking what carries when verticality is abandoned.