Blue Continuum, purchased in 1978, is a different kind of experience. Rather than being a superimposed network which seeks to orient us on a mysterious inexplicit ground (as in Series II, #5), the grid in Blue Continuum operates as a given. It provides the structure from which the picture evolves. Self-sticking labels were arranged in a rectilinear format which hovers well within the confines of the paper. Over this arrangement thin acrylic paint is washed in and after a bit, removed. This process is repeated several times and includes the border area. At certain intervals, some labels are removed, and the resulting ‘stenciled’ passages lightly washed with paint. The idea of taking a highly organized, essentially inert pattern and using it to document movement, change progression is appealing to me.