I don’t know what it is that draws me back again and again to ladders.
Once you get your eye in, they’re everywhere!
In the grouting between bricks, the slats in the top of radiators, in railway tracks, in old film, in clothing fibres.
The patternation, perpendicular lines in regular cross section.
Their encasing, solid dependability coupled with continuous chain-linking possibilities.
Even in drawing, the overlay of perpendicular marks in shading and cross hatching creates some kind of ladder-like network or mesh.