Absque Lumen
Mixed Media Acrylic on Canvas
1200 x 900mm
This work here is a strict black painting. It was important to Max to not add any additional colour in this work. The meaning behind this piece is to accept what is there for what its worth. Max found himself thinking a lot about the removal of colour after his ‘Light’ series, asking the question “what is beneath the colour we see?” So often we use colour to determine what we are looking at, we do not see what is truly there, the shapes, the texture, the movement. Max wanted to focus purely on that and restrict colour all intently. Now what you see is the movement, the ridges and caverns, the shadows and highlights. Your mind now wanders without colour to guide it and to see what your imagination can create from the movement embedded in the work.
It was noted that Max saw the skies and clouds alongside the sea, and that it was a landscape in many ways. The part he loved the most is that he saw it all within the movement and texture.
Absque Lumen - ‘Without Light"‘
Mixed Media Acrylic on Canvas
1200 x 900mm
This work here is a strict black painting. It was important to Max to not add any additional colour in this work. The meaning behind this piece is to accept what is there for what its worth. Max found himself thinking a lot about the removal of colour after his ‘Light’ series, asking the question “what is beneath the colour we see?” So often we use colour to determine what we are looking at, we do not see what is truly there, the shapes, the texture, the movement. Max wanted to focus purely on that and restrict colour all intently. Now what you see is the movement, the ridges and caverns, the shadows and highlights. Your mind now wanders without colour to guide it and to see what your imagination can create from the movement embedded in the work.
It was noted that Max saw the skies and clouds alongside the sea, and that it was a landscape in many ways. The part he loved the most is that he saw it all within the movement and texture.
Absque Lumen - ‘Without Light"‘
Mixed Media Acrylic on Canvas
1200 x 900mm
This work here is a strict black painting. It was important to Max to not add any additional colour in this work. The meaning behind this piece is to accept what is there for what its worth. Max found himself thinking a lot about the removal of colour after his ‘Light’ series, asking the question “what is beneath the colour we see?” So often we use colour to determine what we are looking at, we do not see what is truly there, the shapes, the texture, the movement. Max wanted to focus purely on that and restrict colour all intently. Now what you see is the movement, the ridges and caverns, the shadows and highlights. Your mind now wanders without colour to guide it and to see what your imagination can create from the movement embedded in the work.
It was noted that Max saw the skies and clouds alongside the sea, and that it was a landscape in many ways. The part he loved the most is that he saw it all within the movement and texture.
Absque Lumen - ‘Without Light"‘