Completed Painting: 'Untitled 7 (Constructed City)'

'Untitled 7 (Constructed City)', Acrylics on Panel, 60 cm x 60 cm, 2020

Here's the latest of my 'Untitled (Constructed City)' paintings.  It's the seventh in the current run - and the third to be developed from purely digital origins.  One can always see things one might have done differently, but I think I'm reasonably satisfied with it - for now, at least.  As ever, it will take a while to make any kind of meaningful judgement about that.  Luckily, there are two more currently in progress.  Attention can shift immediately to them, while this one settles for a while.  

There are a few technicalities possibly worth noting. The image is distilled from two superimposed photos of emerging buildings in the skeletal, steelwork phase of their construction.  As with the two preceding paintings, the main formal concern is to achieve some kind of dialogue between negative and positive shapes/spaces.  The degree of abstraction is pretty far advanced here, but with just enough specific detail to tentatively recall the original subject.  I'm pretty happy with the largely monochromatic palette - and with the fact that those fleeting accents of red and yellow relate to the primaries often found on construction sites (being actually fluorescent colours, in this case.  I think the inclusion of silver possibly works better here, than in '6', although - as ever, one can only really judge that by observing the play of light on the actual piece.  Pretty obviously, it makes some reference to the metallic sheen of various materials found on any construction site (although the steels themselves are generally painted). 

One last point worth making, is that this image appears to move a little closer to a state in which it could be read in either the vertical or horizontal plane.  That seems important, given some of my previous observations about how many of these major new buildings fill in both sections of the visual skyline, and sections of terrain, as plotted on a map.