Room 08 · In Relief

Crest and Trough

Close on the surface, where the paint itself becomes wave and hollow.

Hangs in In Relief, room 08 of 14: Where the pour is left behind and the pigment is built up by hand — the sea worked into a third dimension, ridge and trough you could run a thumb along; one such surface carried close through three different lights; and a sunburst raised off the canvas inside a border lettered in three tongues.