Neo-Mudéjar Brick Wall Close-up: Geometry in Slanting Light

A close-up of a brick wall. The image shows only the wall: narrow, thin handmade bricks, colors intermingling from reddish-orange to dark brown to almost purple, with fine, matching mortar joints; some bricks protrude two to three centimeters, arranged in a continuous diamond grid, above which is a sawtooth band formed by diagonally laid brick corners, and further above are five layers of corbelled projection. Low-angle oblique light strikes from the side, with each protruding brick casting a short shadow below it, thus covering the entire wall with fine granular light and shadow. A green glazed round brick is embedded in the corner. Avoid: using frontal light to make the relief disappear, using different colored bricks to create patterns, using uniformly sized modern bricks, making the mortar joints white and wide.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一面磚牆的近景。畫面只有牆:窄薄的手工磚,顏色從橘紅到深褐到近紫交錯,灰縫細而同色;部分磚塊凸出兩三公分,排列成連續的菱形網格,上方是一道斜放磚角組成的鋸齒帶,再上是五層疊澀出挑。低角度的斜光從側面打過來,每一塊凸出的磚都在下方留下一道短陰影,整面牆因此佈滿細密的明暗顆粒。角落嵌著一片綠釉圓磚。避免:使用正面光讓凹凸消失、用不同顏色的磚拼圖案、使用規格均勻的現代磚、讓灰縫是白色而且寬。