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Psycho-Vectors

Seeing Force: a Newtonian phenomenology of perceived motion in the Psycho-Vector series.

Kaz Maslanka, 1981–1988 — oil on canvas, 36″ × 48″.

Psycho-Vectors no. 3, 1988: a dense field of white triangles on black, with resultant momentum, force and energy inscribed below
Psycho-Vectors no. 3 (1988; oil on canvas, 36″ × 48″). The last painting of the series, and the one whose inscribed resultants record the greatest visual force and energy of the three.

What began as the felt resistance of water against a hand
has become a calculable field of forces presented to the eye alone.

Kaz Maslanka

References

The Psycho-Vector paintings are oil on canvas, 36″ × 48″, made between 1981 and 1988. The three field paintings of 1988 close the series.