Conceptual artist Peter Tyndall explores the relationship between a work of art and its viewers. This painting depicts a picture within a picture. It contains black lines arranged to mimic the appearance of a white canvas suspended by hanging wires – a repetition of the same installation arrangement that Tyndall choses for the painting itself.
Tyndall’s extended title has been assigned to all his artworks made since 1974 and describes the physical and conceptual acts a viewer engages in when looking at his paintings and at art in general. Incorporating the word ‘LOGOS’, Tyndall refers to the Ancient Greek term for the 'Word’ and its religious connotations of divine reason and received wisdom. Pairing it with ‘HA HA’, he highlights the visual joke of the painting depicting a painting and finds humour in deconstructing the ‘sacred’ process of viewing an artwork in a museum.