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Discovery and Invention
On May 4th 1980, as the reactions continued to the green paint, the most momentous experiment of all happened. Bloore washed out one end of an ink line with water.
He was, after all, using watercolour paper...
1980 May 4, gouache, ink on paper, 18x24" 46x61cm (802480504)
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1980 May 9, ink on paper, 18x24" 46x61cm (802560509)
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1980 May 22, ink on paper, 18x24" 46x61cm (802600522)
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1980 May 25, ink on paper, 18x24" 46x61cm (802700525)
University of Toronto Art Centre
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1980 c. May/June, ink on paper, 22.5x30.5" 57x77cm (802850600)
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1980 c. May/June, ink on paper, 22.5x30.5" 57x77cm (802870600)
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1980 c. May/June, ink on paper, 22.5x30.5" 57x77cm (802900600)
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In the last piece of this series we see a hint of the next, as usual. After the water separates the ink into its constituent colours, the non-sumi inks that is, the blue ink gets absorbed into paper before the golds...
