THREE SEQUENCES OF MOVEMENT

Acrylic on canvas and wood panel, 20,5 by 43 centimetres, 2020. The smallest of the thirteen paintings made that year in Barcelona, and the only one that is a triptych.

Three small white panels mounted in a row on a black board. Each holds one thin black line travelling across it with red marks placed along the way, and the three are not the same: the middle panel gathers its red into a dense cluster where the other two keep theirs sparse. Read left to right they are three ways the same hand can cross a small distance.

Being mounted together on one board is part of it. The black surround holds the three at a fixed rhythm, so the eye moves between them at a set pace rather than wandering, which is what turns three drawings into one work about movement.

The first two pictures are the panels on their board in the studio in July 2020. The last is the presentation plate, with the title and the size printed beneath.