Paintings & Drawings2020produced

CELESTIAL LOVE

Seven black sheets where the bleach was allowed to keep travelling

A black sheet with two upright forms side by side, each a small looped head above a long body of fine golden filaments

A black sheet with two dense radiating bursts of fine golden filaments, like dandelion heads — Two bursts. The filaments are the bleach finding its own way out.

A black sheet divided by a thin gold horizon, a comet-like form above it and another below, mirrored — One above the line and one below, facing each other.

Bleach put on black paper and then left alone. Where the other works stop the liquid with a nib or a brush, here it is allowed to keep going, and it travels through the fibres the way frost travels across a window — thousands of separate filaments, each one thinner than a hair, all of them fanning out from a single point of contact.

A black sheet with a single large form, a looped head at the top and a long trailing tail falling the height of the sheet — A head, and then the whole height of the sheet to fall through.

A black sheet with a form that doubles back on itself, two small spiral heads at the top and a curving tail below — This one turns back on itself.

So every form on these sheets has a head and a tail. Two of them stand side by side, a head each and a long body of drifting threads, and that pair is why the set is called what it is. Elsewhere the same thing happens without company: one form falls the whole height of the sheet, another doubles back on itself, two burst open like dandelion heads that have already been blown on.