Less light a little less hid by day 2026 – 66 x 51cm, oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas
The incremental diminishment of concealment, the slow process by which what was hidden becomes, a little less, hidden. Not revelation. Not exposure. Just the gradual reduction of the cover that darkness provides, day by day, a little less.
The painting holds two worlds in absolute contrast within a single canvas. Above: a deep cobalt blue field of maximum chromatic intensity, flowers and void forms in equal proportion, red discs, orange blooms, dark impasto masses, the series’ recurring hexagonal aperture framed in yellow and trailing a white line downward like a plumb line testing the depth of the blue. As many absences as presences. As many voided centres as living blooms. The field balanced between what persists and what has been emptied, the day revealing both simultaneously.
Less light. A little less hid by day. The voided forms and the living blooms in equal measure, each a little more visible than before, neither more welcome for it.