Two Bags

Guram Abashvili · 1986

A single figure stands in the lowest third of a panel stripped from a shelter on the Kakheti highway; the plaster above is left bare except for a band of enamel cobalt at shoulder height. The casein is scrubbed on dry so the aggregate in the lime reads through the coat, and the chalk bloom sits heaviest across the ochre of the coat and bags. Hairline craquelure runs the full height, and the lower right corner is chipped back to grey cement board.