Seven Nights, 22" x 28", oil and acrylic on paper, 1985. Private collection.

My inspiration for the "two spheres on a grid" concept was retreating like a sliver of light on the edge of the waning moon. This is the last time I will utilize the two spheres, which are now rendered as tiny cat's eye forms pushed to opposing edges of the picture plane--one viewable only in the peripheral realm of the other. The atmospheric ethereal element of the composition dominates the picture plane which is bisected into complementary hue-derived mixtures of white paint, and more saturated blue and orange paint thickly applied at opposing corners of the picture plane. Only one square remains from the grid, overseeing the order of things from a hierarchical position of prominence in the composition.

The title for this painting is taken from a line in the poem which hangs from the bottom of C-Collage in this same gallery. This is not only the painting which puts to rest the inquiry of C-Collage, this is far and away one of the most fortunately realized paintings that I have ever made.