Saint Helices 30, 12" x 9", watercolor, 1992. Private collection.

My approach to this version of the composition is generally the same as the previous version--the brush strokes and the new edge forms in the lower areas. To add to the growing spatial complexity of the composition I have reintroduced the ellipses and given them their own edge forms. Their angle of orientation is balanced with the lines and forms of the surrounding composition. The elongated brush strokes discontinue at the ellipse form suggesting that the ellipses are hovering in front of the strokes, or, the ellipses are "holes" in the form of the upper-central area of the composition. If the ellipses are polished discs, they are reflecting the color blue because they are facing earth from a high vantage. If the ellipses are holes in the form of the area in which they reside, then they are revealing another space behind that form which happens to be blue. Eureka.