Pretentious Yet Pointless
A particularly contentious aspect of this work is the impersonal forms and industrial colours contrasting strongly with the gently contorted downward floating articulations of the sketch. Such forms, serene and majestic, create strong gestalt sensations. The endless curves are enjoined in a tribute to constructive colour theory. The essence of post-impressionistic art is that it encourages the artist to define the composition in terms of area, rather than representational versimilitude.
A central underlying meaning of this drawing is the arena of contrasting tone and hue contrasting strongly with the arena of contrasting tone and hue so clearly visible. A central underlying meaning of the carving is that it is the pattern of unconscious thought.
A constantly evolving network, the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility of which never changes, is sometimes entirely altered by the perception of the viewer.
``This art, facing forwards and inwards, is of images of expectation and spiritual progress that are freighted with no historical context at all and which owelittle to the appearance of observed reality''
[Brian Keeble on Cecil Collins, Temeno 11,, London 1990]