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“For thirty years I have been working exclusively in the tondo form.
Roundness is fundamental to my visual thinking. The form is nature’s most efficient; it is also able to convey a subtle essence of wholeness, interconnection, and metaphysical purpose. I thin oil paint until it is in a fluid form. Gravity and the physical dif- ferences of each pigment—some settle quickly, some settling slowly—create flow patterns. I build up these flow forms in lay- ers, producing a luminous, subtle surface. I use a gilded ground not in a decorative manner, but to indicate something beyond our physical world, something metaphysical.”
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Idir Eathara III
oil with 12k gold and copper on prepared paper 24'' diameter,
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