Man in an orange shirt and white pants balances on a tightrope, holding a purple ball and a green ball, with wooden roller coasters faintly in the background. Structural omissions disrupt the surface, reflecting Deborah Scott’s Structural Omission framework. Deborah Scott Art.
Balance, 2010, oil and mixed media, Deborah Scott

Balance

Title:  Balance
Year:  2010
Medium:  Oil and mixed media on canvas
Dimensions:  60 x 36 in (152.4 × 91.4 cm)
Structural Omission

Balance constructs its tension through the contrast between the fully rendered figure and a surrounding field that remains structurally incomplete. The omissions interrupt the sky and the roller coaster structures, unsettling depth and breaking the continuity that would normally stabilize the scene. These disrupted areas bind the figure to the environment through shifts in orientation and scale that keep the composition poised between clarity and instability. Within the broader development of Structural Omission, the painting advances the framework by using disrupted landscape and constructed forms together as the site of perceptual tension.