Aaron Ramsey's performance as the central midfielder was very underwhelming, but it is important to consider that
the entire creative burden in midfield fell on his shoulders.
This is not altogether unfamiliar territory as artists like Lucio Fontana and Alberto Burri defined an
entire generation through the act of negation, i.e. excavating the canvas to the point where parts of it shatter, burn and even disappear; like Fontana and Burri, and
Burden too perhaps, Duffy also formulates the endless process by which an artist creates anything as simultaneously
creative and destructive.