Dreams, caught
on canvas.

Start with the hooded figure, then move towards the upper edge. Faces emerge between other faces. A mark can belong to a figure and to the surrounding pattern at once.

Look at the turquoise figures on the left. Their outlines are vivid in places, then disappear into the same marks that build the surrounding space.

The red foreground suggests somewhere to stand. Above it, figures gather without a consistent depth or scale. The scene can be read, but it cannot be mapped as an ordinary room.

A large hand reaches down through the upper centre. Smaller gestures answer it below. Changes of scale draw several encounters into one scene.

Move across the right half. Faces and animal-like heads appear among the blue and amber passages. Their forms share the paint of the surrounding scene.

The bright centre holds the gathering together. Towards the edges, bodies and ground become less distinct. Light gives the scene its structure where outlines begin to dissolve.

Look between and above the eyes. A standing silhouette occupies the forehead as though it were a distant landscape. The portrait becomes a place as well as a face.

The eyes hold small, bright forms. They invite a closer reading of the surface, with another image seeming to sit inside the portrait.

Writing and vertical marks cross the face. Some belong to the foreground; others seem embedded in it. The image shifts between a person, a surface and a scene.

Start at the centre of the suspended shape. Eyes, mouths and profiles share their outlines. A contour that completes one face can begin the next.

Follow the outer edge of the mass. Inside it, the forms overlap densely. Outside it, the canvas opens into pale space. The boundary separates two very different ways of seeing.

The blue figure at the lower right establishes a second scale. Its distance from the mass changes the scene from a collection of faces into an encounter.