“As I began to make the first series of new works for Linden in September and October, I let the material and the energy in making the work take on a life of its own,” Keating recalls. “The perlite, mica flakes and acrylic layers were applied with a lawn seed spreader on the canvas. As I built up the layers in the cold winter weather, a dry crust formed yet I knew the layers underneath were still soft.”