Broad brushes paint crude pictures

2026

Watermixable oil, cold wax, acrylic, pastel, pencil and watercolour on canvas

76 x 61 cm

Framed in kiaat

One of three works in Chapter 5 ('Making Mistakes') of Book 1 (Mapping the Inner Landscape) in the ongoing series Wordstrings

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end, we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” - Syme to Winston in George Orwell’s Nineteen-eighty-four