Into flat space structural omission painting by deborah scott 2012 girl looking into a full length mirror in a purple rooms surrounded by venetian red omissions
Into Flat Space, 2012, Deborah Scott

Into Flat Space

2012
Oil and mixed media on canvas
40 x 24 in (101.6 × 61 cm)
Structural Omission

Into Flat Space constructs its tension through the contrast between the fully rendered figures and a surrounding field that remains structurally incomplete. The omissions interrupt the mirror, walls, and floor, breaking spatial continuity and unsettling the coordinates that would normally organize the scene. These disrupted areas bind the figures to the environment through shifts in orientation and depth that hold the composition between legibility and instability. Within the broader development of Structural Omission, the painting advances the framework by using disrupted interior space as the structural engine of perceptual tension.