"Fancy Dress Party"

This artwork - the 40th in my expanding dedicated series loosely based on the fortification designs of Vauban - uses pre-assembled sheets of Canson Mi-Teinte forming stripes, plus painted sheets of Canson art papers as well as some old music scores and French road maps… all as a collage on canvas. The sheets were marked-up and cut out as angles, then applied to the black painted and scratched 100 x 100 cm canvas revealing the red/yellow undercoat background. I made matching pairs of angles… those with pointed ends to represent males, the ones rounded as females… their different graphic appearances representing pairs of people intermingling or dancing at a fancy dress party.