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Mysteries Twelve

By Susan Banks 2016

Dimensions
76 x 76 x 4

A larger, brighter development from Mysteries Eleven. Using colours from Roman Frescos this is twelfth in a series that responds to 2000-year-old painting. It alludes to borders and illusive planes and perspectives. It plays with the idea of eroded, patchy and apparently faded surfaces suggesting that damage can be an interesting aesthetic in itself. The painting could be categorised as a transcript or transposition.

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