‘Materiality’ series, Eleanor Cunningham.

I just spent a long moment being totally disarmed by this fluid and dynamic image which beautifully re-casts a banal domestic moment as the billowing, undulating movement of some mythical fathoms-deep sea creature.

It reminds me of both Gerhart Richter’s photo paintings, (a technique he discovered by chance), and Keith Tyson’s experimentation as part of his Mathematical Nature series, in which he pours paints, pigments and glazes onto aluminium in mathematically-inspired patterns and lets chemistry do the rest.

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