Two Horizons (Bearings), 24" x 24", acrylic on wood, 1989. Private collection.

This composition began with a circle in a square format and carries general formal allusions to In Our Angelhood. Other reoccurring images and techniques are; the surrealist landscape, the highly polarized modeling of black and white pigment, and elements of abstract expressionism. When I first set the composition in paint the circle was complete and constituted about seventy percent of the picture plane. The circle was so dominant that it made the expressionistic passages in the corners seem superfluous. I elongated the expressionistic brushstrokes to encroach on the area of the circle in an alternating pattern of black and white pigment. As I was working on this painting I was turning the square picture plane and alternating between an upright square orientation, and the diamond shape orientation as it is exhibited presently. The original "bottom" edge of the painting is now the upper left edge. Similar to the formal/conceptual thrust of In Our Angelhood, I repeated the image of the larger circular landscape in a smaller square format in the center of the composition and changed it's angle of orientation by 90 degrees. It works either way, square, or, diamond.