Ochre Field, No. 3

Ochre Field, No. 3 works in ochre, bone, oxidized umber — a single horizontal field bisected low; weight settled at the base. Its subject is abstraction; landscape memory without horizon; the recurring concerns are stratification, erosion, the held line. Within Quiet Geometries, it belongs to a sequence preoccupied with the discipline of the single gesture — how little a surface needs to hold a viewer. The work does not depict a place so much as the memory of attention paid to one. It asks to be lived with rather than looked at. Rendered as a giclée pigment print, on hahnemühle photo rag 308gsm, 100+ year archival rating, it is made to outlast the room it first hangs in.