The subtle colouring of the work, which is slightly reminiscent of Morandi’s still lifes, is contrasted with a delicate azure blue. The artist describes this blue in a letter
 
"... the piece to the puzzle was my decision to paint the insert canvas’s in the Sleeping Paintings this wonderful light sky blue - It took over a month in exploring different blues to decide on this value of the color. I had 30 different painted swatch colors of blue in all shades and values, but this is the one I chose. These paintings where all painted also in natural light."

Lawrence Carroll’s work is strongly characterized by his exploration of minimalistic trends in art. His own remarkable answer to the questions arising from minimalism in subsequent artistic generations is what makes Carroll’s work so unique. As a reaction to the deadpan blind alley of positivist minimalism he turned to the specific and emotional qualities of painting. Poor quality materials are subjected to a long and intensive processing and reflection until their original fabricated properties have all but been disintegrated. The proverbial ‘hand of the artist’ disappears in the material used in Carroll’s paintings and sculptures due to its extended time of processing. According to Lawrence Carroll, ‘The painter lets go of something and the painting retains this within itself’.   

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