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The Abacus Sound Sculpture and the subsequent furniture project have consequently been applied the canvas in a concrete as well as an abstract and conceptual context. One of the central motives is once again the Structures Matrices, which in this case have been colored according to pitch.
acrylic and ink on canvas, 190 × 280 cm
In My Sofa/ The Last Supper/ Structures 1a; Section I-V /Part I
The color system of the Structures Transposition Matrices expresses pitch in the first part of Structures 1a. – Hereby is established a kind of a stained glass window, through which you look down to the Triptych sofa, representing an altar. The communion bread is symbolized by one of the blocks from the Abacus Sound Sculpture; the chalice is seen in the bell of the saxophone.
acrylic and ink on canvas, 190 × 280 cm
Fargo Street/ The Last Supper/ Structures 1a, Section VI–XI /Part II
The color system of the Structures Transposition Matrices expresses pitch in the second part of Structures 1a.
The painting represents the communion table, laid for Jesus and the twelve disciples. Following the twelve spectral colors (the color circle of Goethe) in the “plates”, you see a break in the sequence with reference to Judas, who is placed in the blood field that he bought from the thirty pieces of silver.
Whereas Boulez intended the unpredictable outcome, using the figures in the Structures Matrices, the significant grid is now outlining a composition, close to a predictable authentic world. – The real world painting is a paraphrase on William Claxton’s photo of Art Pepper with saxophone walking up Fargo Street outside his home high atop one of the steepest hills in Los Angeles. For the reason that the street looks like an inverted “T” in perspective, it was possible to fit it in with the significant grid. Subsequently the grid is articulated in the individual objects, by means of which the lines are led down into the curb stones and the poles of the fence, led across the street by the cord, frame the car, and shape the beak and the creases in the wing drapery of the balloon creature. In that way the grid also determines the position of the Abacus Sound Sculpture, which replaces the pylons along the street. – Behind the sun there is a sketch of the Ring Chair (The Structure Series) seen from above. The seat rests upon four rings, in this context representing the four evangelists – St. John (eagle), St. Luke (ox), St. Matthew (angel) and St. Mark (lion), who – according to the vision of the prophet Ezekiel – were the four creatures carrying the throne of God. The evangelists are now united in the roped balloon creature, which all at once is elaborated to quote The Scream by Edward Munch.