Ivan Rutkovych occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. Yellow, ochre, sienna: warm hues that Ivan Rutkovych deploys as the palette's primary energy. Every colour is desaturated; the palette proceeds through near-neutrals and gently-coloured greys. #936227 functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (10.7%). At 70 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Ivan Rutkovych's complete body of work advances.