A Soft Glow Coming from the Darkness.

The article describes an artistic practice that uses abstraction, repetition and translation to build a visual language rooted in black as a conceptual field rather than a color. Topics include painting as a form of language, abstraction and illegibility as meaning-making tools, and iterative artist...

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Published in:	Western Humanities Review Vol. 76; no. 2; pp. 87 - 97
Main Author:	Kent, Caroline
Format:	Article
Published:	Western Humanities Review Summer2025
Subjects:	Abstract art Repetition (Philosophy) Visual programming languages (Computer science) Mass media Communication
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	The article describes an artistic practice that uses abstraction, repetition and translation to build a visual language rooted in black as a conceptual field rather than a color. Topics include painting as a form of language, abstraction and illegibility as meaning-making tools, and iterative artistic processes that translate ideas across media.