This ‘experimentation with translucency and pigment on top gives the textural effect of penetrating all the way to the background’ says Cano. To accomplish this meant developing a painterly tour-de-force as he did! Layers of wave-like blue/green strokes mesh with burnt-sienna swirls, magically suggesting a watery atoll strewn with white pearls. All flows rather than floats –until resolved into soft gold undulations of the frame.