Bast register / field sheet

Plate 03 · fine-line study

Western Polynesia

HIAPO

One ground.
No repeat.

Beaten bark becomes a field for dark plant ink. Every ruled panel changes as it moves inward; every line keeps the pressure and pause of the hand that placed it.

Ground

smoky bast

Mark

plant ink

Method

drawn once

Diminishing motif field A ruled matrix of twelve distinct concentric-circle studies, each varied in scale, centre, spacing, and line weight.
12 fields / each drawn once the line carries the maker
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