In Flight, 22" x 28", oil and acrylic on paper, 1985. Private collection.

I devoted more interest in this work to the initial acrylic painted ground. This preliminary phase of the work suggested an unusual, yet distinctly atmospheric space. It was clear that any object placed on this background would appear to be hovering or flying. I decided to counter the atmospheric nature of the ground by transposing the two spheres into squares (elements of the grid) and stabilizing their appearance in the composition by exactly aligning the squares to one another and by aligning the edges of the squares with the edges of the picture plane in a parallel fashion. The squares are placed to the left of the composition so as not to diminish the curiously provocative effect of the atmospheric area.