City 01

Description

This artwork radiates urban energy and raw visual rhythm, blending vibrant colour fields with layered text, numbers, and textures to create a composition reminiscent of a bustling cityscape or industrial wall layered with time.

The palette is dominated by deep turquoise, fiery red, cream, black, and electric blue, punctuated by bold stencilled alphanumeric markings — “7B,” “A9,” “T3,” among others — applied in a weathered, almost utilitarian typeface. These elements evoke warehouse signage, shipping containers, or coded city grids, grounding the piece in an urban vernacular.
The surface is richly textured, with areas of thick impasto and scraped-back layers revealing previous colours beneath. Horizontal and vertical segments intersect like streets and building facades, creating a map-like structure. The distribution of colour is both chaotic and controlled, suggesting layers of graffiti, peeling posters, and industrial paint — a palimpsest of urban memory.
Bright turquoise blocks offer moments of visual coolness, while the reds and creams act as interruptions — like flashing lights or construction markings. The stencilled letters and numbers feel both arbitrary and meaningful, as though part of a hidden code or navigation system, inviting the viewer to decipher their logic.
The painting captures the pulse of a city — its grit, its vibrancy, its constant transformation. There is a sense of motion and noise, but also deliberate design beneath the surface chaos, much like the living structure of a metropolis itself.