Diagram, 2019

This work was a deliberate attempt at giving the series a shape. I wanted to pull it in another direction and use a found image that was two dimensional, instructional and had a scientific feel to it. I went to the local library to leaf through some old science text books. I took snaps of the pages on my phone, this one coming from a book on electronic circuits. I wanted the lines to feel as though they were burnt into the white, an effect you often can see in old movies. The attention to edge and negative spaces allowed me as a painter to doff my hat towards Mondrian, Constructivism and Op Art. The white background is not even and so subtly signifies a shift in light on a page as a real object trapped in the shallowest of space.

— Andrew Grassie, 2020