Abi, by Hossein Maher

Abi — Blue

Abi

Oil on cardboard · 48 × 61.5 cm · ۱۳۹۹ / 2020

A single tree stands against a field of deep blue, its trunk built from raw umber and gold, its fruit rendered as pale chalky spheres. The blue behind it has no horizon and no depth — it is not sky so much as the absence of a place, the landscape dissolved until only the form remains.

Draft copy — pending review