Pieta, 42" x 24", oil on paper, 1986. Artist's collection.

This is a completely intuitive composition which signals my return to non-objective abstract painting. As I mentioned earlier in this gallery, intuitive work is difficult to explain because the work is performed spontaneously, and how does one explain one's instincts?

Simply stated, this painting is about five visual forms and how they interrelate in a two-dimensional format which is highly suggestive of three-dimensional illusionistic space. I realize that there appears to be only four forms in this painting, but the rectangle of the picture plane itself is an integral part of this formal abstract composition. The black form in the lower right quadrant of the composition appears to be "cradling" the light gray form at the center of the composition in an anthropomorphic mode of interpretation--which is where the title Pieta was derived.

There is so much happening in this painting that it defies a brief and/or direct description. The best things cannot be said.