This piece has a mix of gray tones and vibrantly colored shapes. Most of the colored shapes have angled edges, while the majority of the grays are tranluscent circles mostly located on the right side of the piece. Some of the colored shapes border eachother, like they were connected. Also, some of the loose colored shapes have shadows (like the blue in the middle and red on white at the top left) but they are all different so there is no constant direction of light.
The mix of translucent circles resembles an expolusion or an orb bringing the other shapes towards it, and muttles the colored shapes around it. It is very chaotic, very destructive, and very busy. It suggests solid pieces of the vibrant color being blasted away into smaller pieces bring mixed through the air, but it's not scary or overwhelming becase of the happy colors, the stillness of the pieces, and the soft and harmless look of the translucent circles.
I like the piece. There is a lot to look at without being overwhelming, visual flow from the connected colors up to the translucent "explosion", good color variation, and overall nice visual appearance. But it's very distracting that the shadows do not line up together, and there is no constant light direction.
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It's a nice bit of observation to realize (without coming out and actually stating it) that there is a tension between the piece's suggestion of spatial illusion, but not predictably, and its total abstraction.
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