“The Blue Tree” is presented as a single, distilled moment within Sam Lock’s ongoing exploration of mark, structure, and interruption. Here, a light grid formed by different elements acts as its quiet framework against which a concentrated burst of gestures erupts. The work feels at once constructed and disrupted: the calm of the underlying linearity meeting the restless energy of the painted marks, crossing each other between background and foreground.
Lock’s characteristic sense of loss and erasure remains present, not as a narrative, but as an atmosphere. The grid suggests something once whole, measured or mapped, while the vivid blue rises like a tree not yet grown to its full extent, fragmented, abstracted, and reassembled through gesture. The painting is a self-contained visual thought that hints at a larger sequence.
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