32" x 24", oil on wood, 1997
"Cadence" is such a painting, a perfectly symmetrical butterfly-like orifice, either a hole in or a hovering object in a color field. The layered colors are like leaves of a delicate plant or the wings of an insect. However it suggests no object--it is a globe on a flat expanse of green -brown paint, like a meditation or an apparition, or a tiny chink in a thought that promises another enveloping world inside. In some ways its utter precision and its tiny discretion seem nun-like and pristine. It is peaceful and self-contained even as it hints at depth and otherness.
Dana Spiotta
Author of
The Lightning Field
This painting was lost on September 11, 2001 in the WTC disaster.
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