Pretentious Yet Pointless
The adorned ground belies the essential difference between pattern and texture. A constantly changing glammerdümmering, the essential identity of which is always the same, is always completely altered by the essential fact of the outer surface.
The embellished background belies the essential distinction between pattern and texture.
Contrasts of light and dark march across the emptiness of this image.
``What does it all mean? I have little idea... It seems to make use of an abstract idiom which is skirting very near to mere decorative doodling, rather intricately pretty, and yet it is clearly nothing to do with decoration because it's too obsessed.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.232]