Writhing out from the pavement along Røde Mellemvej, a sinuous form undulates from left to right, seeking upwards, a slimy trace left across three sets of eye-level windows. As it reaches the edge, the wave swells up and through, an unruly crowd, a heavy blow, or internal tissue, pushing, protruding through a weakened, vulnerable seam. Or, in reverse, retraced right to left, a hasty gulp, choked down.
Going back to at least Roman times, the technique of cold painting, or hinterglasmalerei, painting directly on the backside of glass panes, was reserved predominantly for sacred subjects. Paintings built up in reverse layers, fore-, middle then background, where the image can not be corrected in subsequent layers, but rather scratched, scraped off and restarted. Predicted, calculated images, blind in the process.
Polychrome, Røde Mellemvej 28, 2300 Copenhagen S
Photos: Brian Kure