Johns' Dream Painting, 10" x 8", oil on canvas, 1996. Artist's collection.

I dreamed of a field of vertical patches of pale primary colors interceded by three diagonal, horizontal, and vertical independent forms. I later interpreted these interceding forms as the most basic of architectural elements--the post, the lintel, and an angled arrangement of the two, or pitched roof. I interpret the composition as being composed of a background of the most pale primary colors interceded by slightly darker derivation of the primary elements of architecture.

The revelations of this painting/dream are recreated in Saint Helices versions 61 and 62, and 65 and 66.