Six Times Eight, Dreaming 1974

Peter Phillips made this print, Six Times Eight, Dreaming, and it feels like a real departure, a journey. It's sepia images and a grid made of rainbow colours. This piece has such a playful material quality, like building blocks. The way the photo elements are organized into a grid gives it a playful structure, but the rainbow grid stops it from being too formal. The sepia images are warm but the lines are bright! Look at where they meet and contrast. It reminds me of Gerhard Richter's colour charts, but with softer images. The images themselves, they give the work a human feel – cats, a motorcyclist, a woman. What does it all mean? Well, that's up to you to decide, and it will probably change, and that's the point. Art is a conversation, not a lecture.