Matthew da Silva
Timeline Gradient
Artist and Poet
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Color as a plot device

Colour as a plot device helps viewers observe the process and inner workings of the artist’s final palette. This work does not focus on any single outcome and avoids prescriptive statements allowing the viewer to observe mechanics, patterns, and techniques of total colour. Digital imagery is used in the production process, the work is then altered, collaged, reduced. The manufacturer’s process is partially discarded then colour planes and shapes remain on display. Participation from the audience lies between colour and subject. Remnants of subject remain in the work but serve as packaging for creative techniques abounding in pure colour that comes close to the domain of existential meaning.
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Abstract set
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Color as a plot device
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Products
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Crime drama
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Flying insect
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I am coming from
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Japanese saying
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A scene from the show I
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A scene from the show II
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A scene from the show III