At first glance, they seem like a
sign of incompletion, as if the artist had aggregated his dots and «sticks» — narrow, rectangular
strokes that make up the
other significant tool in Forge's kit (as codified in a catalogue essay by psychologist Michael Kubovy for a retrospective held at the Yale Center for British Art in 1996)-- to a point
of near - saturation, and then abruptly abandoned the canvas.