Another kind of Wall (Blue), Sound Yard
Pigment on plywood wall
Sound Yard, Stockholm
The day after the performance Another Kind of Blue at Sound Yard, the canvas had been taken down. What remained was the raw plywood wall behind it.
I could not resist painting again.
Using the same color as the night before, I worked directly on the wall, without the mediation of canvas. The gesture was similar, but the conditions were different. The absorbent plywood received the pigment immediately; the surface did not hold the paint in the same way. The material responded faster, more directly.
If the performance painting was a meeting between clarinet, body, and canvas, this work became something else: a trace left in the architecture itself.
The wall carries the memory of the previous night's action — the same color, the same movement — but without sound, without audience, and without the temporary support of the canvas.