Achroma

Building a wall divides inside from outside. It is how human beings make a place for themselves in the world. Laid flat on a white plinth, the work is read from above, the way a plan is read. The work holds a thin line of demarcation between painting and sculpture. Faint etchings on absolute whiteness, so close to invisibility that they feel almost imagined. The image exists not as a mark but as the pressed and raised architecture, appearing and disappearing with the angle of

A thin material bears a grave weight. The emptied paper holds austerity while centring attention on materiality. Funeral rituals have long embodied the achromatic, in white chrysanthemums and lilies, and in the attire worn by the bereaved: colourlessness as detachment from worldly concerns, a setting aside of self-adornment. Here the reverse of the embossed print is displayed within the wooden frame. An image is transferred between two surfaces, producing two related yet dist