Saint Helices 68, 24" x 18", acrylic, oil, and assemblage on paper, 1993-7. Artist's collection.

Here I am back to the Corot-inspired treatment of the composition. I am utilizing the diverging tonalities of the background and the foreground edges to interplay with one another. The edges are "assemblage" and are the only glazed area of the painting--glazed in blue pigment. I enjoy the way that the background rolls across the picture plane in one large crescendo, or wave of color and tone. This macrocosmic visual event relates perfectly with the similar microcosmic crescendos of the tonal structures and wave-like appearance of the edge forms.