A large saffron-yellow panel photographed on a paint-spattered studio table, divided by white tape into five fields: in the four corners a square kolam-like knot of interlocking bands with lotus buds at the corners, printed in red, blue, deep red and red-brown; at the centre a square of four lotus blocks in red and blue with a lattice border; tubes of acrylic and a tin at the panel’s edge.

Room 09 · Pressed

Five Blocks on Saffron

Four knots and a lotus square, printed on a saffron ground and taped square on the bench.

Hangs in Pressed, room 09 of 14: The newest register, and the hottest — a single red ground, crackled and worked, with the line laid over the top of it. White pattern standing proud of the surface on one canvas; on the next, a whole garden cut in black inside a ruled border. The block-cutter’s grammar, done in paint.

In this room

Six Stencils
Sunflower, Cut in Black
Grain, Bloom, and Vein

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