The On-Top Ruler · Yiğit Özen

The On-Top Ruler, 2020

Acrylic on thick paper, 29.7 × 42 cm (11 ¾ × 16 ½ in). Painting by Yiğit Özen (decentralize*).

Stacked rounded forms build a tall mass across the upper two thirds of bare white paper. A yellow-green dome caps the top, streaked with red, orange and black scribbles. Beneath it a black oval, a blue-grey disc and a blue oval sit toward the left, next to a yellow circle carrying black bar-like marks. Green and pale green curves fill the right side, edged with red and pink. At lower left a magenta oval encloses a pale yellow area with two dark dots and a dark mouth mark. Grey pencil strokes occupy the top right corner.

A tower is built of heads heaped one on another and the topmost is the largest of all; between them there is no shoulder or neck, the heads seated directly one upon another.

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