Abstracts During Lockdown 2 (2021 - 2022)

A selection of abstract works from 2021 and 2022. In the U.K. we, (as most countries) remained in the grip of the Covid 19 pandemic and the subsequent restrictions caused.

It was a challenging and difficult time for all, finally breaking in 2022 as the world moved beyond the global health crisis and back towards a sense of relative normality.

This gallery represents the best of my digital abstract experiments over that twenty-four months.

As an essential Key-Worker during this period, my responsibilities required much of my time. To have rare moments to further my artistic practise allowed me the invaluable space for meditative reflection and refocus.

The works here continue the progression of attempting to capture free-flowing organic rhythms.

Following the established tradition, the names of the artworks listed are chosen at completion by the feeling and sense suggested by the images themselves.


Ultraviolet 01-05:
"1: situated beyond the visible spectrum at its violet end
—used of radiation having a wavelength shorter than wavelengths of visible light and longer than those of X-rays

2: relating to, producing, or employing ultraviolet radiation"
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Plasma-Soda 01-05:
A play on words referring to Plasma:

"4: a collection of charged particles (as in the atmospheres of stars or in a metal) containing about equal numbers of positive ions and electrons and exhibiting some properties of a gas but differing from a gas in being a good conductor of electricity and in being affected by a magnetic field"
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Also referring (By colour definition) to Cream Soda:

"...a carbonated soft drink flavored with vanilla."
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Prismatic 01-03:
"1: relating to, resembling, or constituting a prism

2a: formed by a prism
b: resembling the colors formed by refraction of light through a prism
prismatic effects

3: highly colored : brilliant
prismatic lyrics

4: having such symmetry that a general form with faces cutting all axes at unspecified intercepts is a prism
prismatic crystals."
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Spectrum 01-04:
"1a: a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order

b: any of various continua that resemble a color spectrum in consisting of an ordered arrangement by a particular characteristic (such as frequency or energy): such as

(1): electromagnetic spectrum
(2): radio spectrum
(3): the range of frequencies of sound waves
(4): mass spectrum

c: the representation (such as a plot) of a spectrum"
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Alchemical 01-09:
Pertaining to Alchemy:

"1: a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life

2: a power or process that changes or transforms something in a mysterious or impressive way

3: an inexplicable or mysterious transmuting"
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Entropic 01-06:
As of Entropy: The natural and inevitable movement of all structures from a state of order to a state of disorder over time.

"2a: the degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity
Entropy is the general trend of the universe toward death and disorder.—
James R. Newman

b: a process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder"
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Mesmerize 01-09:
"transitive. To affect (a person) as if by hypnosis; to fascinate, hold spellbound."
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Mercurial 01-06:
" 2: [Middle English mercurie, from Medieval Latin mercurius, from Latin, the god]
a: a silver-white poisonous heavy metallic element that is liquid at ordinary temperatures and is used especially in batteries, in dental amalgam, and in scientific instruments.
Called also quicksilver..."
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