--- title: "T_352, sumi ink on paper | Crucible Year" url: https://peteryuill.art/works/T_352 description: "T_352 by Peter Yuill: Sumi ink on Red Star Mo She Imitation Antique Chu Bark, Exhibition Edition, half-raw, 97 × 180 cm, 2026.06.14. Crucible Year." source: generated from the Crucible Year master database --- ![T_352, sumi ink on red star mo she imitation antique chu bark, exhibition edition] ![T_352, tone-stretched: what the model was shown] ![T_352: every pixel as the measuring code classes it] 97 × 180 cm · the whole sheet, uncropped # T_352 Record - **Date:** 2026.06.14 - **Dimensions:** 97 × 180 cm - **Paper:** [Red Star Mo She Imitation Antique Chu Bark, Exhibition Edition, half-raw](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S10) - **Ink:** [Yi De Ge Refined Ink Juice](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB4), [Boku-Undo Genso](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB5), [Yi De Ge Yun Tou Yan](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB6) [Enquire about T_352](https://peteryuill.art/enquiries?work=T_352) Availability, price or a studio visit. Peter replies himself; asking commits you to nothing. Detail at full resolution, cut by code where the brushwork is finest · select to enlarge [Details](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_352#details)[How it was read](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_352#read)[Date](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_352#date)[Materials](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_352#materials)[Related](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_352#related) Measured ## How it was read Read by the Visual Analysis Engine, version 23.8, on 2026.10.06: measured by code, then read 5 times by Claude Opus 5.5 against three reference paintings (R1 to R3), each read independent of the others. [How the engine works](https://peteryuill.art/method). WHAT THE CODE SEES ## Three views of one sheet. Left, the photograph. Centre, the tone stretch the model is shown beside it: the darkest 45% of tones spread over the whole range, so flat black, banding and stains show. Right, every pixel as the measuring code classes it: cyan black ink, deep teal translucent grey, stone the palest ink, near black bare paper. ![T_352] ![T_352, tone-stretched] ![T_352, classed by brightness] 84% of the sheet carries ink TONAL STEPS ## 2 families of tone. Every inked pixel's brightness in 64 bins, smoothed; each circled peak holds at least 4% of the ink. Two or fewer: Tonal depth is held at the bottom rung whatever the model reads. A dense sheet of many translucent passes can count low here, so Layering is left to the reads. Life inside the black: 0.029 (under 0.045 reads as flat). FIVE READS ## Five reads, agreeing on 3 of 5 qualities. Each quality placed on its ladder by each read, and the mean the engine keeps. Where reads differ, they differ by one rung; close calls resolve down. READ 1 READ 2 READ 3 READ 4 READ 5 MEAN Form 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 2 BUILT 2.0 Tonal depth 1 THIN 1 THIN 1 THIN 2 MODELLED 1 THIN 1.2 Layering 2 LEGIBLE 2 LEGIBLE 2 LEGIBLE 3 ORDERED 2 LEGIBLE 2.2 Composition 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2 WORKING 2.0 Material and surface 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2 SOUND 2.0 ### READ 1, IN ITS OWN WORDS “Radial fan like R3 in idea, but denser and flatter: dark interiors are uniform, there are only two tone families, the right block is stiff and stepped, and the sheet is crowded. Surface sound.” Form · BUILT Left spiral arcs follow brush travel well; right-hand group ends in squared, stacked slab tops that read as stiff, bulky blocks. WEAKEST Stepped blocky slab ends of right-hand fan STRONGEST Curving arc bands spiralling into lower-left eye Tonal depth · THIN Measured dark interior modulation 0.029 (flat) and only two tonal plateaus; banding mostly at band edges, the big dark interiors read uniform. WEAKEST Large dark mass centre-left, flat interior STRONGEST Dry-brush streaking in arc near centre bottom Layering · LEGIBLE Many overlapping band edges remain readable at the fan rims, but the facts show two tone families; dark core passes merge into one tone. WEAKEST Dense centre where overlaps converge into one dark STRONGEST Translucent overlapping bands at outer fan edges Composition · WORKING Spiral gives clear movement toward the white hole; 84% coverage leaves only a top-right wedge of paper, and the right block sits heavy. WEAKEST Crowded right half, little shaped empty paper STRONGEST Spiral sweep leading into white eye, lower left Material and surface · SOUND Ink controlled overall; minor drops near lower-left eye, fine crease lines top-centre, specks top-right paper, none disrupting a principal mass. WEAKEST Small spots and creases in paper, lower left STRONGEST Dry-brush grain in central arc stroke FLAWS ## 5 distinct places, 0 major. Each read must name every flaw and where it is, in a ninth of the sheet. Here the reads named flaws in 5 distinct places, 15 mentions in all across 5 reads; the number in each ninth is how many times a flaw was named there. Reads agreeing on a place strengthen the evidence for one flaw; they do not multiply it. GEOMETRY ## Measured from the 16-bit master. The previous engine (V22) measured this sheet's master file: 1 principal ink mass traced (cyan), 6 enclosed voids at true size in their grid cells (amber), the main gesture from start to end (red). Of 16 edge segments, 75% crisp, 25% soft or bloomed, 0% broken. The rating these readings produce, the rules applied and the arithmetic, with Peter's own rating where he gave one, are in [the Archive record](https://peteryuill.art/archive/works/T_352). ## Date 2026.06.14, day 168 of the Crucible Year, one of 8 paintings from that date (7 shown). 31 works were registered in the fourteen days before. Paintings are dated by the day their batch was registered and photographed; each was finished that day or within the few days before. Phase: [P3 The Floor Rises](https://peteryuill.art/phases/P3) (working title). THE YEAR ## T_352 among all 402 Every painting of the year by date; this one is outlined. [Every painting from 2026.06.14](https://peteryuill.art/days/2026-06-14) · [This date in the year](https://peteryuill.art/year?follow=2026-06-14) ## Materials - **Paper:** [Red Star Mo She Imitation Antique Chu Bark, Exhibition Edition, half-raw](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S10), China Xuan Paper Co., Ltd. (中国宣纸股份有限公司), made 2026.01.14 - **Ink MB4:** [Yi De Ge Refined Ink Juice](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB4), Yi De Ge (Beijing) - **Ink MB5:** [Boku-Undo Genso](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB5), Boku-Undo - **Ink MB6:** [Yi De Ge Yun Tou Yan](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB6), Yi De Ge (Beijing) The sheet of paper was made 151 days before this painting. When each paper was in use [S1](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S1)[S2](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S2)[S3](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S3)[S4](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S4)[S5](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S5)[S6](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S6)[S7](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S7)[S8](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S8)[S9](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S9)[S10](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S10)[S11](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S11)[S12](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S12)[S13](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S13)[S14](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S14) Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct ## Related From the same date · 6 Same paper and inks, other dates · 8 [Pattern V23 material and surface rung rose from 2026-05-24 on (rank-biserial +0.78, n 259)](https://peteryuill.art/oracle)[Pattern The floor of V23 Form rung raised in the later half of the practice (+2.30 SD, n 259)](https://peteryuill.art/oracle)[Pattern 45% of the variation in V23 Composition rung lies between batches (29 batches, n 259); with the month held constant 26%](https://peteryuill.art/oracle) [Previous T_351](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_351) [Back to all works](https://peteryuill.art/works) [Next T_353](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_353) ## Where next [T_351 same date, with 5 others](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_351)[T_229 same paper and inks, 2026.04.18](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_229)[2026.06.14 8 paintings on this date](https://peteryuill.art/days/2026-06-14)[Paper S10 every work on it](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S10)