Decentering the subjective: The transcendent experience of formlessness in an abstract expressionist painting practice

摘要

This practice-led research project is based on the experimental strategy of Formlessness within painting, a negation of representation within the compositions, which potentially act as a pathway to sensory immersion and without a subject-matter to an awareness of Self. The colour palette chosen for the colour fields introduces chromatic couplings that are specifically hung for maximum charge. The colours present as taking on their own lives, explaining the compelling force behind these works that lead to a pure sensation. Key tenets of Anthroposophy - with particular concern towards Steiner's writing on colour - are central to the theoretical position the project takes.