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COLOUR | TIME
Colour entropy: colour transformed through duration
Colour sensing: the invisible spectrum of light made tangible
Colour models: colour defined through language
Colour speculations: recombining characteristics of colour into new readings
Colour tautology: self-referential relations within colour
1600 years of light, field
![LAb[au]’s 1600 Years of Light, Field, an expansive yellow uranium-ore installation covering the floor of a white exhibition hall.](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/fb1d51_b55098efa0f04efa848039b504d540f9~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_480,h_338,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/1600yearsOfLightField.jpg)
The work’s intense yellow derives from uranium ore, but its continuous release of energy will gradually turn the pigment black. The monochrome is therefore not a stable state but a painting in permanent transformation. Its actual radioluminescent colour remains invisible, while the yellow appears only as a residue of the present.
The viewer thus encounters a single moment in a 1,600-year process whose completion lies beyond human scale and imagination. Here, colour is both a trace of elapsed time and an anticipation of its future state. Situated between the visible and the invisible, the work turns painting into an event unfolding in time.
LIST OF RELATED PROJECTS
CONCEPTUAL SEQUENCE
Radiation (Decay Time) → Chromatic Alteration (Stratification of Time Scales) → Transmutation (Deep Time)
LIST OF RELATED KEYWORDS
Painting Time # Colour Entropy # Blackening # The Unstable State of Colour # The Invisible Visible # Duration # Colour as a Trace of Time
# Colour and Memory # From Generation to Generation # The Unimaginable Scale of Time # Years, Decades, Centuries, Millennia, Millions of Years