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What does monochromy mean?

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Noun
  1. (dated) The art of painting or drawing in monochrome.
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With its impassive surface whose neutral monochromy confounds itself with that of a possible abstract painting, the mirror does not reflect any image and only retains on its surface the insistent reflection of the void.
This quest for monochromy is a reflection on the successive instants of identity.
In looking towards monochromy, precisely where the meanings of the diaphanous, the immaterial and the intangible are determined, each one of my self-portraits comes across like an emergence, and an effacement.
Far from limiting the colour field, the yearning for monochromy exposes the sensibility to the infiniteness of colour.
Through a boundless succession of layers of monochrome hues and faint tinges, monochromy uncovers a plural infinity of strata of colours which the gaze is incapable of counting.
In order to evacuate my hypersensitivity, I alternate between figuration and abstraction, drawing and painting, monochromy and polychromy.

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