Mind Mechanics No. 58 (Assemblage I)

i · Red ground, parchment paper, yellow splatter

ii · Second layer of parchment, painted black

iii · Spray paint and oil stick

iv · Excavation

No. 58 is built in layers. It began as a red canvas. Parchment paper was laid onto the colour, and yellow paint was splattered over it. A second layer of parchment paper followed, painted black, and on this ground the profile was drawn in spray paint and oil stick. Only then did the excavation begin: digging back through the black until the red and yellow beneath surfaced again, as a fragment inside the head. Mind Mechanics No. 58 is an assemblage developed through the accumulation, concealment and physical excavation of successive material layers.