Jeremiah Maddock, "Carpet Rough." Image courtesy Lisa Kinoshita.

Inside the tiny, orange-walled space at Mineral, Jeremiah Maddock has created windows into another world. It's a world of intense detail, intricately drawn patterns, where even the clouds are made up of alphabet letters and the cities of millions of microscopic squares. "Bombfroilcatnek," Mineral's three walls of Maddock's drawings, shows both Maddock's delicate artistry and Mineral owner Lisa Kinoshita's excellent judgement.

If you were in Tacoma four years ago you may remember Maddock's work. He showed at the former Kickstand (now One Heart) Cafe next to The Grand Cinema--before my time here, at least. Since then, the Tacoma artist has moved to New York and made good, gradually, showing at New York's Saved Tattoo, and solo shows in Milan, Denver and Mexico City (while paying the bills by staging the lighting at Democratic conventions.) He seems to be a pretty shy guy, with no website, though you can find out more about his work (as Kinoshita did) at artists-on-paper website Paper Monster.

Or you can just drop into Mineral and admire the work. Filled with hieroglyphic detail, the drawings are mostly pen-and-handmade-ink, with a few watercolors thrown in. There's an incredibly complex world map of bombers with boots on, soldiers with chicken feet, arrows, flowers, hands sprouting legs and mystical symbols. There's a city (New York, obviously) whose window-filled towers curve around to form a serpent's head, poking out a don't-care tongue.

The most esoteric of all are squares filled with so much repeated, visually complicated detail that they look like computer motherboards, all tiny curves and elipses on the kind of beige background that makes you think of treasure maps. (see above) Actually, these are designs for real Turkish rugs, which Maddock is soon taking to carpetmakers in Turkey. They're mesmerizing.

And just when your eye has started to blur, Maddock sweeps you up with a painterly style, in which vaguely dragonish figures spout watercolor mist and disembodied people with sad eyes float in a miasma made up of ink-drawn letters and flowers.

Mineral is an art and designer jewelry space at 901 Puyallup Ave, Tacoma, in the Dome District. Hours: 12-5 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. "Bombfroilcatnek" is up through Sept. 17. 253-250-7745, www.lisakinoshita.com