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Many of these works emerge from extensive processes of research and development. These processes often generate extensive series of results that require reproducible material forms—digital prints, photocopies, colour samples, index cards, folders, or other formats. In these formats, the underlying concepts find precise material expression. For some, the edition constitutes the very form through which the work exists.

 

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disagreeance decreasingly undecreasing – front view of the three colour-anagram print editions

disagreeance

PRINT EDITION

triptych:
disagreeance decreasingly undecreasing
(A conflict grows weaker over time, yet remains)

resulting from the anagrams of the colour names:
acid green - sea
acid green - syl
acid green - sun
 
disagreeance
Difference of opinion, contradiction, or discord
 
decreasingly
is an adverb meaning in a way that is less than before
weaker over time
 
undecreasing
not diminishing; remaining constant or continuing to increase.
 
ACID GREEN — named for its sharp, artificial yellow-green appearance, evoking something chemical, corrosive or toxic; standardized as RAL 140 70 50.
SEA — a traditional descriptive colour name derived from the appearance of seawater.
SYL— Galtane, SYL IN—Oxyde Rouge, silicate mineral paint
SUN — a descriptive name for radiant yellow-orange tones associated with sunlight.
 
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English anagrams of colour names from the series:
What Colours Tell Us About ...? 
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  • Edition Details

    Year: 2024
    Size: 3 × 25.5 × 35.5 cm
    Digital print mounted on wood
    Signed, numbered and stamped on the reverse
    Edition of 3 + 1 artist’s proof
    Produced to order

    This is Edition: 1/3

  • Description

    disagreeance decreasingly undecreasing

    Writing with Colours begins with colour names and treats their letters as chromatic material. Combining ACID GREEN successively with SEA, SYL and SUN produces three exact anagrams: disagreeance, decreasingly and undecreasing. From hundreds of millions of possible letter combinations, three words emerge that even form a coherent semantic progression—an extraordinary and improbable coincidence.

    Read together, they suggest: “A conflict grows weaker over time, yet remains.” The sentence also describes an experience of looking at the triptych. Beginning with the sharp encounter between ACID GREEN and SEA, the chromatic conflict gradually calms, yet never fully resolves into harmony.

    At the same time, another disagreement persists between colour and language. The colours establish their own visual relationships, while their rearranged names introduce an entirely new dimension of meaning. The work emerges from this unresolved encounter—between what colour produces and what language makes possible.

  • Shipping

    This artwork is produced to order. Please allow up to two weeks for production before dispatch. Shipping costs are calculated according to destination. The work is shipped in protective art packaging.

  • Suggested Constellations

    Writing with Colours can extend across different anagrams:

    Please check out the diptych:
    demonical binaries
    resulting from the anagrams of the following colour names:
    cola + denim
    iris + bean

     

€1,100.00Price
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