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Mysteries Eighteen

By Susan Banks 2016

Dimensions
50 x 50 x 4

I have been in thrall to mock-ups of cinnabar red throughout this series so here is a deviation in the eighteenth work. In suggesting illusive planes, openings and perspectives I find that I have been accidentally referencing what Roger Ling describes as “Vorhang and Durchblick” – roughly translated as curtain and view. LING, Roger, “Roman Painting”, Cambridge University Press, 1991 Oil paint on deep canvas

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