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Orchid Window, Mirrored Magenta Loops

Four mirrored, curling shapes in bright magenta and pale pink, each outlined in thick black lines, sit in the corners of a black background. Between them is a diamond-shaped center filled with swirling purple and lavender patterns, with a small pink diamond at its middle. The pink areas have a speckled, mosaic-like texture.

Someone wants this piece for the way it looks: a hot magenta and pale pink shape, thickly outlined in black like stained glass, repeated in four mirrored corners around a soft lavender diamond. Most pink abstracts are washes of colour. This one has hard edges, a mosaic-speckled surface and a calm swirling centre, so it reads as graphic and ornamental, with a glow at the middle. The black ground isolates the colour and makes it look lit from within. Liking it is reason enough to want it.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski