Vance Kirkland long series of ‘Dot Paintings’. ... This technique might remind one of Pointillism, but only in theory, not in practice...this method is far from that of the Pointillists. The big, organic forms are built up from tiny dots, using powerful, sometimes brutal colors ... The dots of paint are plastic; they protrude from the surface of the painting, almost transforming it to a relief.” There are four main series and some important sub-series: Energy of Vibrations in Space [with sub-series Valhalla, Geometric, Einstein, Open Suns]; Energy of Mysteries in Space; Energy of Explosions in Space; Energy of Forces in Space;
Chroma dots was normal practice to insert a filter circuit between the color video output and the black-and-white monitor input in order to remove the color signal and prevent the formation of chroma dots. In many cases, however, the filter was not used and the chroma dot patterning is permanently burned into the resulting film recording. In 1994, James Insell, a BBC engineer, noticed that when playing back a copy of a black-and-white telerecording through color video equipment, spurious color was generated by the presence of chroma dots in the picture. He theorised that it might be possible to use the chroma