Packed Soil sets the weight of the palette in stability and reliability, and Beeswax is the swatch that breaks rank: a single yellow that stops the set reading as one note. Oxidised Iron is the loudest thing in the set and every swatch beside it is warm too, which gives the palette no way to cool a page down and no colour to rest an eye on. Packed Soil and Raw Linen sit 64 points of lightness apart, enough to separate a foreground from a background without forcing it.
Packed Soil a dusty taupe-brown, quiet and unassuming.
Oxidised Iron grounds a palette: stability, reliability, the color of wood, soil, and things built to last.
Beeswax reads as optimism and clarity, the fastest color to draw the eye, the hardest to ignore.
Concrete Grey is true neutrality, balance and restraint, a color that recedes so the palette's other choices can carry the emotional weight.
Raw Linen a peach or apricot tint, all the friendliness of orange with none of the volume.
Soil, rope, rags, wax and branches placed in the gallery with exact care: sculpture from poor materials, temporary by design
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