This is a work from the Synesthesia Series.
Synesthesia is an involuntary sensory experience that takes many different forms; from tasting colours to smelling sounds, etc. In Daniel Mullen's wife Lucy's case, when she sees or thinks about time and numbers (days of the week, months, hours, years) as well as letters/words ie. a person’s name, she experiences a different colour sequence in her mind's eye. Additionally, time is spatial and coloured related, as in the days of the week, months, years, all have a coloured location in space and a shifting orientation. Essentially, she has an ever changing complex and luminous filter to view the abstract concepts of our world. Daniel Mullen himself doesn't have it, but he unknowingly developed a way of painting that is the closest visualization Lucy has ever seen of her experience regarding coloured letters, numbers and time.