Authorial Comment
The artists describe this Work as a point at which forms begin to crystallise: the broad White Mold principle moves toward a more restricted grammatical set later articulated in 2017 The Rules of the Game. This is a present-authorial reading, not a historical title or Series reclassification.
Detail
From this came the Noise Index, later fixed as the White Mold Index. The index was not a set of motifs or a style but a system of formal interventions. Recursion is important here: the painting opens the wall; patches of colour and forms open the painting; white patches open those forms; White Mold forms open the white patches; then the indexed forms themselves are opened again — through doubling, displacement into space, smearing, overpainting, repetition, and deliberately crooked execution. In the texts of that period this was called formal invasion and disclosure. One stabilised level of form is opened by the next. The instrument, therefore, is not an individual sign but the operation of opening itself.
History
Later 190601 Cone uses the same physical canvas as the 160712 Bubbles. Bubbles was buried and severely damaged. After excavation, the canvas was conserved and restored using restoration techniques; the damaged and restored canvas was subsequently reworked into 190601 Cone.
Related Works
White Mold
Bubble Samotryas and Devine Tongue
