Decomposed hardwood series

The working title, Wing Commander, comes from the name of the blue paint tint I found a 20L bucket of. This is the first experiment of the series I started about 2017. It took many hours of cleaning to remove all the loose and soft material from this decomposing hardwood beam, and many hours of painting to get all the nooks and crannies to achieve this even matt finish. It stands about 2.4m tall without a plinth.

Tentatively called Big Hazard Yellow, this is the largest and heaviest of the series so far. It's 3 metres tall and weighs a lot more than me, so it was challenging to work with in my modest spaces at home and at the studio. It took weeks of drying after the high-pressure water cleaning and priming before I dared start painting it with an industrial oil-based epoxy. Apart from the paint, it is all found materials including the wheeled base.

One of the early experiments in the foreground, contrasting the perfectly cut natural timber surface with the highly textured, decomposed timber in matt digicomp-green. Various Egg Problems and towers in the background, with an egg shell in the same green.