CAGE | Four interlocked Penrose frames forming a floating cubic grid in blue tones | Light–shadow contrast | Optical paradox | Fine art print on Hahnemühle, Alu-Dibond, white frame with shadow gap | Available exclusively in the Art Store
CAGE | Four interlocked Penrose frames forming a floating cubic grid in blue tones | Light–shadow contrast | Optical paradox | Fine art print on Hahnemühle, Alu-Dibond, white frame with shadow gap | Available exclusively in the Art Store

CAGE

The artwork “CAGE” assembles four interlocking Penrose frames into a seemingly spatial structure rendered in cool blues. Like a cubic lattice, it hovers, casting shadows while resisting any coherent perspective: inside and outside, support and void, weight and levitation collapse into one. The optical paradox becomes a metaphor for a cage made of perception, rigorously constructed yet permeable. “CAGE” weaves precision, illusion, and quiet tension into a single suspended form. “CAGE” is an artwork from the “Blue in a Square” art series with over 300 works. Each piece is available exclusively through the art shop and can be purchased online via direct sales.

Prisoners of our learned behaviour.

Fundamentally, we perceive and see ourselves as individuals. Like a solitary tree in a wide meadow. I used to assume that I could develop and unfold freely in all directions. Like a mighty oak in a park. Standing there all on its own. But over the course of my life, it became increasingly clear to me that this is not the case. I am what people tell me I am. And I am what I have learned in order to exist in my surroundings.

So I believe that, personally, we increasingly step into the very cage that life builds for us. Interestingly, we feel safe and protected inside this cage. We give up freedoms in exchange for a feeling of security. It takes a lifetime to free yourself from this cage. Maybe you never get rid of it completely. But you can create more and more moments in which you move outside of it.

I am convinced that the clearer you become about your own thoughts and your own behaviour – and where they come from, the more you can free yourself from your own mental cage. The artwork “Cage” refers to this condition. An open cage in every direction, in which you are trapped by your thoughts and your patterns of thinking. Even though you could, in principle, think in all directions.

The artwork “Cage” is part of an art series of more than 300 works that revolves around the theme of “positive memory culture”. Is the cage positive? Hardly. But realising that, in fact, it is open in all directions – and calling that to mind again and again, is the positive impulse. I am not trapped in my mental cage. I can think in all directions – and then act accordingly.

Keynography Art

Keynography Art is a new digital art form founded by Christof Hintze, with no AI being used or applied, created in Apple Keynote—originally a presentation program. Through the precise interplay of complex stencils, masks, lines, and many layers and shadows, shapes, depth, and spatial effects are built up—like a collage, but entirely digital. The result feels like a graphic relief: clean, detailed, and surprisingly three-dimensional, even though it is made from simple Keynote elements. More about it in my bio…

Artwork Details

Canon fine art inkjet print on high-quality Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 g/m². The artwork format can be freely selected: from a minimum of 20 × 20 cm up to a maximum of 120 × 120 cm. Mounted on 2 mm Alu-Dibond, with a white wooden frame and shadow gap. Price/offer upon request, depending on size and quantity.

Artwork – Recommended retail prices (RRP):

From the minimum size of 20 cm × 20 cm: €819.00 incl. VAT
From the medium size of 70 cm × 70 cm: €999.00 incl. VAT
Up to the maximum size of 120 cm × 120 cm: €1,399.00 incl. VAT
All prices, sizes, and variations are listed in the catalogue.

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