Sister, 48" x 96", oil on panel, 1986. Artist's collection.

This large painting on panel is, like Brother, concerned with combining visual voices or modes of rendering of a dualistically distinctive nature. The composition began with the execution of the three-dimensional form on the right. As a pre-thought, I positioned a one-inch wide piece of masking tape offset to the center line of the right panel as a means to conceptually "re-flatten" the illusionistic space of the three-dimensional form. The process of executing the form and removing the tape to reveal the underlying picture surface was a formal device which would conceptually integrate the right three-dimensional panel and what was to eventually occur on the left.

The form on the right is an abstract visual form of no specific genus. I was thinking about a chess piece, a stove top espresso maker, and a form of apparel--like a dress form. The composition on the left is an atmospheric abstract composition with a super-imposed circle form which compositionally unifies the left panel specifically, but also visually and conceptually integrates with the rounded nature of the three-dimensional form on the right panel.