--- title: "T_407, ink on paper | Crucible Year" url: https://peteryuill.art/works/T_407 description: "T_407 by Peter Yuill: Two black fans of stacked brush bars curve toward a pale channel, with red bleeding at its neck above a round well of bare paper. Ink on Red Star Mo She Imitation Antique Chu Bark, Exhibition Edition, half-raw, 97 × 180 cm, 2026.10.29. Crucible Year." source: generated from the Crucible Year master database --- ![Two black curved fans of overlapping bars flank a pale vertical channel, with red washes, descending to a round paper opening at bottom centre.] 97 × 180 cm · the whole sheet, uncropped # T_407 The engine's reading Two black fans of stacked brush bars curve toward a pale channel, with red bleeding at its neck above a round well of bare paper. Record - **Date:** 2026.10.29 - **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 Yun Tou Yan](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB6), [Boku-Undo Gentoku Super Concentrated](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB8), [Yi De Ge Pine Soot Ink](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB9), [Shisan Yue Calligraphy and Painting Ink](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB10), colour inks [Enquire about T_407](https://peteryuill.art/enquiries?work=T_407) Availability, price or a studio visit. Peter replies himself; asking commits you to nothing. Somebody forgot to switch off that red. I know the kind. It buzzes in an alley too narrow for delivery vans, over a door that stopped being a restaurant years ago, and it goes on selling the dark to the pigeons. I spent a winter on the roofs above that alley, in the rain, watching the pink come down the brick and settle in the gutter water. The whole block is shuttered and still the bill gets paid. Cities are supposed to cut the power to places like that. Mostly they forget, and I have loved them for less. Toward morning the landlord's son comes out in slippers, looks up at it, and goes back in. The puddle goes on blushing under his door. Neon [Who Neon is](https://peteryuill.art/neon) Detail at full resolution, cut by code where the brushwork is finest · select to enlarge [Details](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_407#details)[The reading](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_407#reading)[Date](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_407#date)[Materials](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_407#materials)[Related](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_407#related) The engine's reading ## The reading Written by the engine after the painting was rated, from the settled findings, and checked by hand before approval. It explains the numbers; it may not change them. - **Structure:** two fans of stacked arc bars, joined by a central channel and round well - **Movement:** arcs sweep over the top and down to the channel; drips run sideways against them - **Coverage:** ink on about nine tenths of the paper - **Tone:** three tonal steps, weighted dark - **Layering:** translucent grey passes, black, and red; readable along upper rim, fused in lower corners - **Edges:** crisp on bar and block ends; soft in red and rim wash; broken at drips - **Feibai:** none - **Open paper:** pale vertical channel widening into a round well at bottom centre; bare upper corners - **Colour:** red wash at the channel neck, beside the lower-left block, and inside the well - **Chance marks:** drips along channel's left wall, spatter top right, creases lower left, cloudy patch inner right - **Frame:** ink runs off left, right and bottom; top touched near centre; upper corners open Two black wings climb from the bottom corners, arch over the top and stop short of each other. Between them a pale channel falls into a round well of bare paper. The eye rides the rim, then drops. The upper left is the richest ground. Translucent bars lie over wider arcs, each bending with the fan, and the greys step down in an order you can follow pass by pass. Half-sized paper keeps a dried layer where it is, so nothing sinks. Ink runs out of the channel wall in beaded threads, and red bleeds soft against hard black block ends at the neck, exactly placed. The price is paid low down. In the lower corners later passes bury earlier ones until the blocks fuse into bulk and the black goes nearly flat, a static weight with little left to read. Creases in the lower left and a cloudy patch at the inner right block are small; the sheet absorbs them. Even so, this is a commanding painting. Rim, void and that smear of red lock into one architecture, and the top is good enough to make the heavy floor a fair price. ## Date 2026.10.29, day 305 of the Crucible Year, one of 6 paintings from that date (4 shown). 19 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: [P4 S14](https://peteryuill.art/phases/P4) (working title). Made after one of the busiest fortnights of the previous two months: 19 works in the fourteen days before. THE YEAR ## T_407 among all 408 Every painting of the year by date; this one is outlined. [Every painting from 2026.10.29](https://peteryuill.art/days/2026-10-29) · [This date in the year](https://peteryuill.art/year?follow=2026-10-29) ## 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 MB6:** [Yi De Ge Yun Tou Yan](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB6), Yi De Ge (Beijing) - **Ink MB8:** [Boku-Undo Gentoku Super Concentrated](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB8), Boku-Undo - **Ink MB9:** [Yi De Ge Pine Soot Ink](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB9), Yi De Ge (Beijing) - **Ink MB10:** [Shisan Yue Calligraphy and Painting Ink](https://peteryuill.art/inks/MB10), Shisan Yue (Thirteenth Month) - **Colour:** colour inks, recorded together The sheet of paper was made 288 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 · 3 [Pattern The floor of V23 Composition rung raised in the later half of the practice (+2.65 SD, n 265)](https://peteryuill.art/oracle)[Pattern V23 material and surface rung rose from 2026-05-24 on (rank-biserial +0.76, n 265)](https://peteryuill.art/oracle)[Pattern The floor of V23 Form rung raised in the later half of the practice (+2.33 SD, n 265)](https://peteryuill.art/oracle) [Previous T_405](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_405) [Back to all works](https://peteryuill.art/works) [Next T_408](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_408) ## Where next [T_404 same date, with 2 others](https://peteryuill.art/works/T_404)[2026.10.29 6 paintings on this date](https://peteryuill.art/days/2026-10-29)[Paper S10 every work on it](https://peteryuill.art/papers/S10)