IF ONLY FILM COULD DO THE SAME, 1972

36x25 cm, oil and collage

A diptych full of incident, mainly of deep pink and blue and brown which are colours of the human skin under stress, bruising and the sun, though that is an afterthought. The paint and the colour efortlessly hold the various contents together - the fragmented watches and the buckles, the electrical equipment, the bureaucratic forms and the wallpaper - Time and shaving, going to school and bondage a list of Ds and a text of madness and Death Valley the dim and the sharp, the flat and the faded, the assertive and the self-effacing... if only film could do the same... but we expect content and narrative continuity of film and could never conceive of shape and colour being responsible enough to provide coherence.