A dense thicket of almost impenetrable marks greets the viewer seeking parley with this work. As if in a quantum superposition, potential states come in and out of existence as the eye wanders over the chromatic cauldron.
As the mind seeks for regularity and patterns, this painting slowly yields up its form. Dark green waveforms anchor the lower third save for a boulevard of ultramarine mixed with white. Lessening in density as they move up the left and right flanks and combining at the top to create a mesh coalescing around the midpoint of the sagittal plane.
Couched within this sleeve is a terrace of lime, pea green, and strikes of white leading up to a central medallion of blue and white pulsing about two thirds of the way up the canvas. Giving further visual depth to the work, another plane of red is obscured breaking through at a number of sites mainly in the upper third. Spotted patches of green season this plate of implied fire. A sash of lime green with a orange-yellow garnish tops the work.
For such an effervescent piece, there is a surprising solemnity amidst the kinetic energy coursing through it.
What you do when you paint,
you take a brush full of paint,
get paint on the picture,
and you have faith.
Willem de Kooning
Part of a group exhibition 'Immaterial' at Soho Revue, London from 04 June to 31 July.
