Audio Description

Wieteke Heldens, The Legend, 2024. Image courtesy the artist.

Audio Description – Transcript

This work is displayed in landscape orientation in a six foot tall by nine foot long lightbox with a black frame. The lower edge of this lightbox’s frame is at doorknob height level.

This lightbox shows a colour enlargement of a smaller work. It is a light grey canvas which has 181 unique paintbrush markings on it. Each marking has a label underneath with a typed number. The numbering starts with 1 at the top left and orders itself in roughly 8 rows and ends with 181. The markings are patches, circles, dabs or dashes of colour made with various sizes of paint brushes. The markings are all over the canvas and in all different colors such as green, purple, red, brown, yellow, orange and blue. In the upper half of the canvas they are generally larger. Towards the bottom of the canvas there is a long row of vertical brushstrokes presumably made by a small brush. The effect of all these colours and markings on the canvas is that of a randomly dotted pattern from a distance and up close it has a methodical feel.