he lesson of the great American artist Mark Rothko has been assimilated and elaborated by Todd Williamson in an admirable way; the monochrome color fields of the American master have been re-elaborated with the addition of a score of horizontal lines arranged in a sequence from the top downwards, that are suddenly joined by blades of light that penetrate the mind, rather than the eye, of the observer.

Horizontal linearity:

The interior need for order in the system of thought and pictorial research has made Williamson proceed with a kind of score on the canvas, a kind of plot, a scheme by means of which to read the work.

Like musical scores bring order to the sounds transmitted by an indeterminate chaos of simple noises, turning them into a melody, Williamson gives pure color a visual and emotional order through the horizontal lines.