Postulates from a Restless Radius

2021

Acrylic, gesso, lacquer, charcoal and watercolor pencil on linen

640 x 320 cm radius, 375 cm length

Installation view, Ishara Art Foundation, UAE

Postulates from a Restless Radius draws its shape from the conic Albers projection of the Earth. With a hand-drawn graph beneath the imagery, the work begins as an unstable, cross-sectional grid in aquarelle pencil that opens up the globe on a flat plane. Its pale, stained ground alludes to “cosmic latte,” the term coined by astronomers for the average colour of the universe. In place of planetary geography, the painting assembles signs and speculations, at once evoking botanical, suboceanic, celestial and geological formations. It becomes an exploratory abstraction whose forms suggest signatures of growth and entropy.