Blue Grid, 22" x 28", oil and acrylic on paper, 1985. Artist's collection.

In this version I have laid out the grid upon which the coordinates of the spheres are plotted. The grid is articulated in a four-square sequence of alternating directional patterning that by its left to right nature of sequence also creates a diagonal sequential pattern. The logical and organic articulation of the grid creates the basis for a figure/field interplay with the "mathematically" plotted position of the spheres "A" and "B". The black-dashed lines represent a convergence of lines of reference most commonly illustrated in this type of diagram as the convergence of line x horizontal and line y vertical. In math-speak, this referred to as a cylindrical polar coordinate system. Aside from the math babble, this painting is a metaphorical visual construct dealing with basic humanistic issues such as environment, human experience, social order, individuality, and ultimately, the multifarious dynamism created by the convergence of these basic life issues in a specific scenario. In this painting the specific life issues and scenarios are conceptually portrayed by two spheres on an infinite grid plane. The geometry here is merely a metaphorical structure through which the dynamism of the visual poetic structure is revealed.