Celosia

Eight-pointed stars laid over one another until the plane fills, the crosses appearing simply where one star overlaps the next. Read it as a lattice of crosses and bars, or read it as a field of stars — both are the same drawing, the figure and the ground trading places across the surface.

The open geometry is a celosía, the pierced screen of Moorish and Spanish architecture — the Mudéjar tradition where a wall is cut away into geometry to let light and air pass through. The pattern is defined as much by what is removed as by what remains.

At architectural scale the celosía is a screen, a window grille, a pierced gate. At jewelry scale the interlace of stars becomes the silhouette of the piece itself — solid metal cut so the openings carry the figure.