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Eye of the Current - Blue Swirl Abstract

A vivid abstract made of flowing, swirled color arranged in a large oval. Rippling blue bands surround a warm center of red, orange, yellow and olive, with a pale spiky star shape at the top and a red and yellow whirlpool at the bottom. Small golden specks scatter through the middle.

A stranger is stopped by the contrast: cool, rippling electric blue wraps a glowing core of red, orange, yellow and olive. The centred oval reads like an eye. A pale spiky starburst sits above a red and yellow whirlpool, so the picture has a clear top and bottom as well as a centre. It is a swirl picture with a definite shape and a hot-against-cool palette. Plenty of fluid abstracts are loose pours of mixed colour, and this one is not.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski