This reminds me of when I was in NYC years ago w/ my sister. We went to the Museum of Modern Art, and entered a room full of color field paintings. Asking about one of them, she said, “I don’t understand. It’s just a canvas painted one color. Why would anyone do that?” I said “come w/ me” and we walked over to the painting, close enough to where it completely filled her visual field. She stood there for a minute, and then said “Oh! Now I get it.”

I love your colored pictures.

Like David, I suggest ‘Seems that it might be worth doing an experiment w/ one or two of these images, and try mapping the same images to a variety of color scales. Possibly even dropping in a third color somewhere along the continuum and see what you get’.

My first thought was Wow — I like this direction much better than the black and white. And then I started thinking about scale and how part of what the Ab Exes did depended upon sheer unabashed size. You can’t see the edges of some of their paintings — no peripheral visual edge appears. Now that we all know how beautiful their work works, can it be done in miniature — or smaller?

Like you, the notion/quotation from Jay that the evening/night light turns everything inside out is worth exploring. What appeared to be going in one direction (down the street toward the corner) suddenly goes 90 degrees and even if you aren’t traveling there, it’s the house interior that your eyes work toward.

I’m playing (in my mind) with direction, time, and space and one of these days will have enought energy (and guts) to try to put these maunderings into words. It’s all tied to landscape, of course. What happens to the void when you turn on the stars?

I’m reading Yi Fu Tuan, Space and Place (or some such title) and he keeps tripping me up. However, I have hit upon a quirky explanation of some of my whacked out city-scapes. Which I might lay on all of you one of these days.

Jay, I don’t see how a plastic molded house would be sonar/visual — just can’t get my mind around it.

I’m getting interesting effects just tilting the screen back and forth.

I’ve got some bats in my belfry that might work for the sonic part. You’ve given me an idea: along with those spindle pieces, I’m playing around with drape forming plastic. It’s all very primitive as I bought one of those propane weed burners and am trying to manipulate acrylic sheets with it without a lot of bubbling and burning. One result is a kind of vacuum formed look, like the see-through package for an auto part. If I place a sheet over a jerry-rigged surrogate of the house in sticks and stuff, and carefully blast it, I might come up with an approximate and transparent representation of the dwelling. This, then, might be a reasonable framework for the process that you propose.

You’ve already shown us your house as facade and gallery wall. Methinks it’s time to recast it as night-time installation, complete with soundtrack.