I'm a big fan of this piece so far...but it's got a bit of a ways to go still. I want more color and darkness to peak through the white, leaving more depth, detail, and texture, but I also want the white to largely sit above most everything, almost like a blanket. I want it to appear there is something yearning to get out, to end up on top, yet it's being stifled by the thick white sheet above it. The title refers to the method as well as the subject. To create the aesthetic, you lay down a layer of color, then cover it with white. Then more color. Then more white. As you go, you don't quite cover up everything, you smear, you mix, you remove, you miss...all resulting in a surface that is always moving, always working to keep the action at bay, always tense as it remains in constant flux. In result, instead of having a vibrant and colorful abstract piece that blasts you away with energy and emotion, you get a piece which draws you in and pulses at constant odds with itself...reserved and subdued in it's captivity, yet boundless and explosive in it's constant back-and-forth tension.
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