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Abstract Alphabet and Accompanying Afteramages Published January 2021 Mono-print in 5 colour-ways.
An afterimage refers to the the inverted colours and shapes that are perceived when an image is stared at for a period of time. If one looks at a small red square on a sheet of paper for a while and then looks away at the surrounding white area, a cyan (turquoise) similar sized sqare is obsrved, this is known as a negative afterimage. It is the result of of retinal fatigue of the red cones in the eye caused by by the act of concentrating on the while paper and allowing the green and blue cones to rest. The paper normally perceived by the red, green and blue cones simultaneously, appears to the observer by only the green and blue cones, resulting in our seeing us to see the image on the paper as cyan (turquoise) or minus red. This print exploits the phenomena by creating a spiral of capital letters and filling them with selections from abstract paintings and then inverting them to form a second, background spiral using the colours of their afterimages |
Canvases from 2021
