World Splitter — Original

Fine liner pen and ink on paper — Monolith Collection

Original, one of a kind · Signed by the artist

A structure fractures, drifts, and finds its way back together.

World Splitter is built from hundreds of individual hexagonal cells, rendered in three distinct treatments — dense stippled texture, solid black fill, and clean untouched white — clustered into two large honeycomb formations that curl and taper as they spread across the page. The cells aren't uniform. They grow larger and smaller, denser and sparser, as if responding to some unseen pressure pulling the structure apart.

Between the two halves, a small stippled form splits open like a seed pod or a cell mid-division, its two halves marked with radiating fern-like patterns. It is the hinge the entire composition turns on — the moment of separation, and the promise of reconnection.

The hexagon, repeated at this scale and with this level of consistency, becomes hypnotic. Hundreds of individually rendered cells, each one a deliberate, unrepeatable mark, built into a structure that feels both organic and engineered at once.

Details:

• Medium: Pigma Micron fine liner pen and ink

• Surface: Strathmore Mixed Media paper

• Dimensions: 11" x 14" / 27.9cm x 35.6cm

• Original: 1 of 1 — this exact piece will never exist again

• Hand signed by Matt Derbidge

• Ready to frame

• Ships flat in rigid protective packaging