By early 1987…
“By early 1987, I had decided that using Ascending Colors and metaphoric forms in the Illustrative paintings, was in essence, getting ahead of myself. I was no where near being satisfied with my use of Ascending Colors as the sole source of imagery. I felt an urgency to finish the investigation, to focus on using Ascending Colors as a language and achieve a true fluency with it. These paintings are the final part of that journey. With the Dec. 1988 work ”Rising Together”, I felt that I was finally satisfied. My language was complete and I was ready to take a break. I intended to take about 3 years off to reflect, review, plan and stabilize. The last few, smaller canvases were little more than cleanup. And one very special love letter.” MJS
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- A Better View
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- Modes of Urban Transportation
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- Pieces of Eight
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- The Victory Parade
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- The Broken Bridge
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- Binoculor
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- The Bridge Abutment
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- The Desire for Progress
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- Downtime
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- The Busyness Factor
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- The Small City – 1987
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- Following Kick Off
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- Seven Years On: The Inverted City
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- Strength
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- The Radio Telephone
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- When Assembly Is Required
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- Monolympic
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- Swimming the Shallow Curves
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- Over the Wheatfield
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- Aggregation
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- Casablanca
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- Above
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- Philip as Touch Judge
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- Turnstile Part One
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- Icarus
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- Gardening
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- Desert Flowers
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- The Revelation Process Pt One: Reading
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- The Revelation Process Pt Two: Standing
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- The Revelation Process Pt Three: Kneeling
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- The Revelation Process Pt Four: Praying
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- First Year Ballerina
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- Neighborhood
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- The Neighborhood Observer
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- Two Players Approaching the Ball
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- Rising Together
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- Natures Object at 30
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- Study of Japanese Item
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- Medicine Six
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- Janes Flower
Next Category of Paintings: Ascending Colors: The Intermission Series