Abstract image of elongated circle and a series of lines, printed in black ink. This is one of a series of four linocuts, based on eddies, which are water flows and currents.
In an interview with Glasgow Print Studio on 21st June 2010, the artist stated;
“I like these very much. I wanted to do things which were quite small, they’re quite abstract in a way. I was interested in how you turn things on their side and they just change altogether. I had done that in a neon piece called ‘Great Concept, Great Idea’. I was interested in that because of ‘Broadway Boogie Woogie’ and ‘Victory Boogie Woogie’ by Mondrian and how you could change things, you could change the dynamic. Theo van Doesburg - I was interested in him. When I was an architect I got very interested in art because I didn’t do art in school, so I got interested in art through architecture. People like Theo van Doesburg would work on a grid but it was on a diagonal whereas Mondrian was doing it on the vertical and horizontal, for different reasons. It was the linear quality I was very interested in...Also, the line comes from the paper itself, so it’s not like an imposed line, it’s a liberated line. You’ve liberated that space, you’ve got a black rectangle and you’ve taken something away to allow the light to come through. It’s like putting a black square there and releasing that shape from it. They’re a bit more sculptural, a ‘releasing the figure from the stone’ type thing”
