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Between 1962-64, Hesse developed a looser, more gestural drawing and painting style, often incorporating colourful, collaged elements. Surrealist artists, such as Roberto Matta and Arshile Gorky, may have influenced her use of fluid, almost random marks in the series of drawings and paintings in this room. The sense of energy and dynamism between the forms is enhanced by her use of arrows to further emphasise movement.

The fluidity of her style is matched by her flexible approach to the physical components of the works. For instance, she would sometimes take drawings apart and reassemble them as collages, perhaps returning to them later to move collaged elements or even turning them upside down.