Red Reverse: Osamu Sleeping

"Red Reverse: Osamu Sleeping" presents a resting male figure — a subject that by gender alone distinguishes itself from the great majority of Binnie's work. The "Red Reverse" designation suggests a technical variant in which the normal color relationships of the composition are inverted or altered, perhaps with red playing a dominant role where it would normally be absent. Osamu, the sleeping subject, offers Binnie the same opportunity the sleeping female bijin presents: a figure unguarded, the performed self dissolved into the naturalness of rest.