Form is set aside. In Towards Radical, on paper, the field loses its last edge, while the canvases of the same year still build bodies. After a break in 2022, the field returns at scale in Distances, from darkness through saturated colour to light; in Introspection, light enters from the edge and ends as bare canvas. In Standby, flat colour stays, with nothing left to cut: it only stops the field along a straight edge.
Oil worked with a palette knife over an acrylic underlayer that breaks through in places. This is the field of Towards Radical at the scale of a body. The sequence runs from black relief through red and saturated yellow to a surface that is all light.
DP03, 2023, oil and acrylic on canvas, 307 × 194 cm
DP02, 2023, oil and acrylic on canvas, 194 × 318 cm
DP01, 2023, oil, acrylic, and spray paint on canvas, 194 x 318 cm
DP04, 2023, oil and acrylic on canvas, 322 × 194 cm