‘The Veil (after René Magritte’s The Lovers)’ is a pen and ink drawing. Beginning at the top left with a zero, a decimal point, then another zero, it continues in 1mm rows until after almost 800,000 zeros there is a number one, then even more zeros. It is an infinitesimal number that approaches but never arrives at zero. Taking inspiration from René Magritte’s painting ‘The Lovers’ in which two veiled heads lean toward each other but never touch, Fielden’s drawing is the single veil between the lovers, the intimate and infinite distance between two people. The work imagines a subatomic measurement that might describe the distance of an intimate connection.

Australian poet and publisher Carol Jenkins speaks of 'The Veil' as exploring "the tension that exists between figures in a scene by the simple reiteration of zeros and the finely calibrated distance between each zero. Where the work lifts is in the synergy of the zeros. They shimmer on the paper – and in this embodied moiré pulse that seems to make the work float off the page, a sleight of hand that creates an illusion of three dimensions." (Read Carol Jenkins’ full essay here).