In this detail in particular, I hope you can see how the blue is lay down. There’s not brushwork. It alights on the canvas as something safeguarded, precious.
Biroscape N°8
0“The first patent for a ballpoint pen was issued on 30 October 1888, to John J. Loud, who was attempting to make a writing instrument that would be able to write “on rough surfaces-such as wood, coarse wrapping-paper, and other articles” which then-common fountain pens could not.”









