WB: (...) For example, I was taking a color walk around Paris the other day…doing something I picked up from your pictures in which the colors shoot out all through the canvas like they do in the street. I was walking town the boulevard when I suddenly felt this cool wind on a warm day and when I looked out all through the canvas like they do in the street. I was walking down the boulevard when I looked out I was seeing all the blues in the street in front of me, blue on a foulard…blue on a young workman's ass…his blue jeans…a girl's blue sweater…blue neon…the sky…all the blues. When I looked again I saw nothing but all the reds of traffic lights…car lights…a café sign…a man's nose. Your paintings make me see the streets of Paris in a different way. And then there are all the deserts and the Mayan masks and the fantastic aerial architecture of your bridges and catwalks and Ferris wheels.
BG: You mentioned once that you can't see all of these at the same time.
WB: No, This is the first real space-timing painting in which there's a presentation of what is actually going on in front of the painter and the viewer in a space -time sense, both through the forms and through the color because the color makes the shifting forms. And then this is related to actual time-sequence. I knew of no other example of the way in which time is represented here. I can't see all of these different levels at once because it is as if they existed independently only. In their time-sequence. Here is space-time painting. You can see way deep into al sorts of landscapes for instance, and then you flash back to what appears on the surface…The substance of the painting exists with a double motion in and out. When you see one layer of the picture then you suddenly see it all. The eye which I am using as a port of entry jerks me abruptly into a landscape I never saw before. It is a sort of toy world and one that is somehow alarming, populated with mechanical insects attacking each other and men in armor from other planets. Or they may be simply modern welders with bridges in the background.
