In 2020 I saw the artwork “4900 Colors” at the The Met Breuer retrospective Gerhard Richter: Painting After All, which was only on view for eight days due to the pandemic.

Richter’s “4900 Colors” consists of modular squares produced by mixing the three primaries in graduated amounts to expand the number of hues and tones. The artist produced 196 unique panels composed of twenty-five squares. The placement and positioning of the panels is deliberately arbitrary.

Seeing this piece inspired my film “4913 Colors” where I randomly arranged 5x5 color panels in time instead of in a plane.

My title frame is an homage to Richter’s “Cathedral Window” (2007) in Cologne which the artist created the same year as “4900 Colors.”