Colour chart for a hospital

I began by selecting internet photos, photos of operating rooms. I reduced them to a few pixels, provided that from very far away the image could still be distinguished. Something similar to what many people do, like some works by Sherrie Levine in her series “after...” and other artists. But what interested me was to make a colour chart, a colour chart for a hospital, (a chart of greens, landscape-green, nature-green). That is the reason for the division between the pixels, with a thin white line, like the colour of calibration charts.
I then painted these photos on acrylic glass, and little by little they differed more and more from the original, although my only goal is to copy them as faithfully as possible. I cut each pixel out and I compare it with the mixture of paint that I am making, but the similarity gradually disappears and I enjoy myself mixing each colour and knowing that I am not able to reproduce it. It is simply not possible.
The aim is to aestheticise a ‘tough’ situation, a surgical operation. All that remains is a lovely image of greens, a landscape, although I only pretend to reproduce the scene, the result is something completely different, symbolic.
Of the photographic imprint, there are only small fragments left, which are isolated, resting against the wall so we can choose one.
Thanks to Koldo Martínez and the operating room staff in the Hospital de Navarra.
Dick Recalde