Charcoal on Paper
This drawing was made one year ago. I thought it was finished, but I was wrong. Recently I unrolled it from the strorage tube and proped it against the wall. I left the room, and returned to find these spectral dots, or rainbows on the drawing. The rainbow dots made me excited, because for several weeks I have been wondering why I have been making works in black and white. I have been thinking that there is color in them and that I am anticapating its presence. So that the lack of color leads to a feeling of anticapation. Which is exactly what happened. Not only was there color but it was in the sturcture of a spectrum, white light separated by a prisim, in this case the window, into the primary colors of light. Wikipedia describes it more physically.
"Dispersive prisms are used to break up light into its constituent spectral colours because the refractive index depends on frequency; the white light entering the prism is a mixture of different frequencies, each of which gets bent slightly differently. Blue light is slowed down more than red light and will therefore be bent more than red light."-wikipedia
