Chromatic Disturbance, 2024, mixed media, 20 x 26 in. / 50.8 x 66.04 cm.

Chromatic Disturbance, Gerrit van Ommering, 2024, mixed media, 20 x 26 in. / 50.8 x 66.04 cm.

My photo of four colored fluorescent tubes hardly seemed worth pursuing. But some unstructured experimentation with increasingly aggressive wave distortions produced a riot of jagged, overlapping colors. The mundane arrangement became so wildly disturbing that I decided to stop while I was ahead.