Panel Cure, 56" x 66", oil on paper, 1986. Museum collection.

This piece, like the previous Coming Home, also deals with the ritualistic sensibility of "process as product". The six panels began as an arrangement of relatively pure colors applied in oil paint. Then I began a process of blending the colors which involved moving sequentially from panel to panel with a single paint brush. The brush remained thickly charged with the pigment of the previous panel when I set to work on the next panel in the sequence. I repeated this panel-by-panel blending sequence several times--even reversing the direction of the sequence when I reached the final panel. What began as an arrangement of contrasting colored panels became an arrangement of muted colors of a very tightly-ordered color scheme. This panel-by-panel process of blending also softened the edges delineating the individual panels thus giving the "grid" a more loose and organic appearance. The appearance of the spherical shape in this work is discussed at length in the Dream and Blind Works gallery.