A modernist painting of a face built from flat angular planes of yellow, slate blue, deep red and black, with one large open eye and a smaller closed one, white lines radiating from a small moon-like disc at the left temple, and a fan of dark scalloped scales at the lower right. The words SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE SACRED SILENCE are hand-lettered along the top edge and AND SLEEP runs vertically down the right side.

Room 12 · The Living Shape

Somewhere Between the Sacred Silence and Sleep

A face assembled from slabs of yellow and slate, with the title lettered across the top edge and down the right, and something ringing at the temple.

Hangs in The Living Shape, room 12 of 14: The flat unmixed colour of the hard-edge work, turned on something alive — a face taken apart into planes, a bird crossing a painted morning. No shading, no modelling, nothing softened: the living thing set down in bright and uncompromising shapes.

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Portrait in Planes
Fair Weather

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