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Mysteries Fifteen

By Susan Banks 2016

Dimensions
76 x76 x 4

One of the largest and brightest in the series this is the fifteenth work that responds to 2000-year-old painting using colours from Roman Frescos. It alludes to mosaics, borders and illusive planes, openings and perspectives. It plays with patchy and apparently faded surfaces suggesting that damage can be an interesting aesthetic in itself. It is a response to a slightly confusing visual experience and proposes that this could be more engaging than a predictable one. The painting could be categorised as a transcript or transposition.

Susan Banks

Susan Banks

Susan Banks

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