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PATMOS Series.  1987-92 Vestiges plus Island Vestiges led to the Patmos Series. I decided to increase the importance of the image and downplay the visual strength of the abstract ordering of the various planes.  No negative space. The planes of the Vestige and Island Vestige Series remained but, the definition of the planes would be done without the use of light and shadows. Scale of the image was to be the only perceptual tool I would use. I chose images with a strong sense of perspective to reinforce the depth of the painting and then enlarged the image as the planes receded.  The idea worked even better than I hoped. All of the paintings were done based upon street scenes of the Island of Patmos, Greece with the exception of Rio Tera Secondo (Venice, Italy), Ghost of the Queen (Queen Mary, the cruise ship anchored in L.A.), and Windows (Santa Fe, New Mexico).