Paintings & Drawings2020produced

DANCE WITH FIRE FOR THE MOON

Ten night panels, yellow moving against the dark

Ten dark blue-grey panels arranged five across and two down, each marked with yellow gestures, pale discs and a yellow band along the bottom

A dark panel with a large pale ringed moon at the top right, yellow strokes falling around it and a small dark disc below — The moon, ringed, and everything else falling past it.

A dark panel with a yellow curved stroke at the top, a pale disc, and a heavy olive-yellow mass above a yellow band — A mass settling onto the band.

A dark panel with a tall yellow zigzag running down its centre past two small dark discs — The zigzag, pulled the whole height in one go.

Ten panels, made and shown as one piece, five across and two down. Every ground is the same: a dark blue-grey brushed downward in long vertical strokes, so each panel already has weather in it before anything is put on top.

A dark panel with two upright white slabs standing side by side beneath a yellow hook, above a solid yellow band — Two white slabs, standing still while the yellow moves.

A dark panel with a pale spiralled moon at the top left and loose yellow strokes crossing the lower half — A spiral for a moon.

A dark panel scattered with small yellow leaf shapes above a broad black and yellow diagonal — Sparks above, a diagonal beneath them.

A dark panel with a wide yellow zigzag across the middle and pale white shards falling from the top edge — White shards coming down through it.

What goes on top is yellow, and it is always moving — a zigzag pulled across the whole height, a hook, a scatter of small strokes falling like sparks, a low band running along the bottom edge like a horizon or a floor. Against that, white and pale blue arrive as still things: discs, a ringed moon, upright slabs standing in a row.

A dark panel with a black and yellow disc at the top, a white ringed moon below it and a yellow form lying along the bottom — Two moons, one eclipsed.

A dark panel with a leaping yellow figure at the top, a black disc beside it and a shower of small yellow marks below — The one that reads most like a figure.

A dark panel with a heavy yellow and black horizontal stroke, small pale marks above and a yellow band with a dark eye at the bottom — And the last, with an eye set into the band.

So each panel holds the same argument between something burning and something watching, and the ten of them read as one night going past rather than ten separate pictures. The title says it plainly enough.

Medium: Acrylic on board, ten parts
Materials: Acrylic, Board
Role: Artist

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