Galerie de Valois, Palais-Royal - Paris 1, 01h20

One of the 72 Facets of Paris, a series born of a piano waltz of the same name: the artist gave each of its seventy-two measures the harmony of a Parisian place at a given hour, then painted each harmony into colour and form through his ideamorphic method. This facet belongs to the prelude — played ad lib, free of the bar, soft and mysterious. From the chord A−Maj7♭5 it draws the spirit of the Galerie de Valois, the old arcades of the Palais-Royal at twenty past one: teal and crimson interlocking over blue and shadow, a white square like a shop-light left burning. It holds the square (column 1, row 5) of the mosaic, which fully assembled forms an abstract portrait of Paris.