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ArtGram.Wing

Two neighbouring readings rise together. They neighbour each other because they belong together, so this is one part of the painting doing two things in the same breath.

The most typical Wing in the catalog: Movement to Nowhere. Closest of the 14 to the shape’s own mean on all six.

Where it sits

Texture
3.2 above the catalog median of 3.0
Contrast
2.8 below the catalog median of 3.5
Form
2.5 below the catalog median of 3.0
Abstraction
2.7 above the catalog median of 2.6
Color Range
3.3 above the catalog median of 3.0
Palette
3.3 below the catalog median of 4.0

Means across all 14. The signature is what holds for the shape as a whole, not a rule every painting obeys: a named silhouette cutting through a continuum, not a category with a boundary.

What it is next to

Let one more reading reach and it becomes Frond or Sprig, and let one drop back and it becomes Spur. Two paintings a single step apart are related in a way you can see, which is what makes the thirteen a language rather than a list.

What it invites

aliveness 4  ·  tenderness 2  ·  restlessness 2  ·  reverence 2  ·  longing 2  ·  awe 2

The 14

Ordered from the most typical outward. The last of them sit at the edge of the shape, where the next one begins.

Bud 1 Spur 38 Wing 14 Fork 51 Samara 20 Frond 8 Sprig 49 Trillium 12 Sheaf 12 Spray 16 Quatrefoil 6 Corona 17 Bloom 2 TEXTURE CONTRAST FORM ABSTRACTION COLOR RANGE PALETTE
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