Brother, 48" x 96", oil on panel, 1986. Private collection.

In this large panel painting there remains influences of the previous works of this time, but their application to this composition became broader in scope. The left side of the composition deals with three-dimensional spatial relationships which are largely assisted by the cylindrical form at the far left. The left side of the composition is painted in primarily blue hues. The right side of the composition is painted in primarily red hues and is formally concerned with flat two-dimensional spatial relationships. The vertical green rectangular shape at the far right, the vertical yellow shape in the center, and the cylinder at left, are all essentially the same form rendered in descending/ascending scale and modes of articulation. The broad highlighted area which diagonally traverses the composition adds a naturalistic pictorial element to this formal abstraction and creates an area of formal and phenomenological interface which facilitates in unifying the dual nature of the composition.