inchoate (nemesis) incomplete

1000mm x 1000mm
coal dust, black acrylic house paint on stretched canvas


The definition of black in the Oxford English Dictionary is as follows: 'Black; The proper word for a certain quality practically classed among colours, but consisting optically in the total absence of colour due to the absence or total absorption of light as its opposite white, arises from the reflection of all the rays of light' . Colour as a thing in itself, as a certain wavelength is without much meaning. When one considers that everyone perceives colour in a similar way, nonetheless culturally everyone is different and how they respond to colour intellectually can vary greatly.

what's going on here?
black in black on black. 4 layers of black with coal dust and still it reflects light where ever it gets onto the surface but I think the billions of particles of coal crystal are doing something to the surface. Photographing this phenomena is going to be a challenge.