#L645 - 120/120cm

As I mentioned before, I spend a great deal of time making digital sketches on the computer. For this particular painting I started off by literally adding a twist to Josef Albers' Homage to the Square' design.

The black and white sketch demonstrates how the margin of each square first grows and then diminishes clockwise. Theorethically the narrow lines are one centimeter wide (because of the manual process, the actual widht can fluctuate somewhere between 8 and 11 millimeters) while the margins vary from two to eleven centimeters.

When I began experimenting with the coloring I noticed that gradually filling each space with a different hue of the same color, the design as a whole turned blurry. This way I unexpectedly created some kind of optical illusion.