
Red Spot
Charcoal and pastel on paper · 65 × 51 cm · 1991-1992
This work took me more than a year to complete. I had no clue what I was doing. During the day I worked on my thesis and during the evening and night I sat on the floor and pushed myself to look and look better, gradually filling the paper with marks that tended to intertwine and connect. In the end one patch was left open. I chose to make it red. I imagined how the shapes and forms might be expressions of an order that I could merely touch upon. Unfolding and captured by the black, white and mark of red, I was bringing to the surface the grimace of the Cheshire Cat, where figure and background distinctions do not make any sense. I called it after David Bohm.