I held them at arms length 2026 – 26,6 x 20cm, acrylic, spray paint on paper
The gesture of keeping something at a distance that is simultaneously a form of connection and a form of refusal.
The lower border here is aqueous, dark green and black, pooled and stippled, the ground that has absorbed something, the earth at the point where absorption and saturation meet. Above it, the field held at arms length: the orange fire, the neon green, the reaching pink forms, the full chromatic abundance of the series kept at the distance of the brush and the spray can and the mark-making tool that mediates between the body and the surface..
I held them at arms length 2026