Lawrence Carroll was always interested in the multifaceted ways one is perceiving a painting.

The artist writes in his very personal observations on the Yellow Paintings:

„Giorgio Morandi a painter who has always taught me so much used a lovely buttery yellow in several works painted in 1952.. Since viewing these works many years ago I have been trying to get that yellow to work for me. The color yellow has an immediate pull and power to it, obviously it suggest light, sun and warmth, but this read is only one way into the color that can then splinter off into. […] When I made this painting I wanted to use a color that’s meaning could open up in many ways. As I was not interested in a painting having just one read, one meaning, I was looking for a more subtly complex reading that could unfold into several meanings. My aim was to have my work be seen in a more human, vulnerable and open context. In the humanness of my work, meaning could slip from this to that. It was impossible to read the painting in just one way, and to see it just one way.“

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