Slapchartreuse is from her series Groundsplatpink, comprising riotously coloured paintings exploring the language used to describe abstract painting. Elements of Slapchartreuse are typical of this series, including the use of tightly framed text, awkward vocabulary, and a seemingly limited colour palette. Slapchartreuse takes its title from the first line of text on the painting, written in a banner along the upper half of the painting. Clay employs text from books, most notably Roald Nasgaard’s Abstract Painting in Canada, using a kind of black-out poetry technique to extract the pith and essence of the descriptions rather than a straight transcription. These poetic phrases are then forced into rigid, geometric shapes designated as a tribute to the modernist forms of mid-century painting.