"Giger Counter" - abstract
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The title came to me early in the process of painting this; it's a dreadful pun conflating the name of the Swiss surrealist (who died this May; I only just found out) and the instrument used to measure ionizing radiation levels (spelt "Geiger" and named after the German physicist). The texture of my picture reminded me of that of some of H. R. Giger's work. The painting was based on the leftover dribbly acrylic from panting the edges of my Really Big Canvas. I liked the effect of the dribbly underpainting on that work, and decided to make a painting that was just about that. The colours and the quantity of paint (and my decision to rotate the canvas so that the dribbles went perpendicular to each other) resulted in a more claustrophobic image than I had originally envisaged; this is the brightened up re-vision. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 cm
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