Bus 29 — Acrylic on Linen Canvas by Arnaud Quercy

About This Artwork

What happens when eighty seconds of bus 29 — an electric motor, two announcements, a chime, doors opening and closing — are asked to hold a chord?

A rule fixed in advance answers: C altered seventh, over a very low C. Unlike most, this fragment proposes a hierarchy of its own — the rule finds something in it to rank. A second rule assigns each pitch its colour, and the canvas executes both to the end.

Nothing goes from the sound to the painting. Two domains that nothing brings together are bound by a rule that was posed, and what appears on the canvas is what that rule produces. What remains is the gap between the rule and its execution: it belongs to the work.