subcutaneous

below the skin, or below several layers of the skin.
in defining the layers of a work, the two and three dimensional aspects of the act of applying material, the notion of hierarchy and above and below shifts as the weight or faculties of the surface and material allow for disruption and shifts.
the blue appears above when it is below in time and application.  age, drying, value, chroma, these elements forget one another, allow and persist into the completed composition.

po·ché

pocher -  (Fr) to make a rough sketch

exonerate

to clear, to free from guilt or blame.
to relieve from obligation.

hagiography . study of saints.

a conceit is an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem.

brazen

bold and without shame.

"That zero panorama seemed to contain ruins in reverse, that is—all the new construction that would be built. This is the opposite of the "unromantic ruin" because buildings don't fall into ruin after they are built but rather rise into ruin before they are built." Robert Smithson, "A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey"