Summary
This painting is composed by the steady accumulation of individual paralel marks, some singular, some close enough together to form blocks. Purple brush strokes and a range of violets and greens and reds and oranges are a deliberate application from the chosen palette. These are not colours from the tube, rather pigments mixed with deep thickened whites and blacks to arrange and orchestrate currents of illusion. The direction and signature flow on this life-size self-stretched canvas is almost always vertical and I took extra care in slowing down the natural dripping process; so I could create two paintings in one; the top of the painting with a rough textured edge, the lower more translucent and reflective.
