Rue Tiquetonne - Paris 2, 03h20

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. Here the waltz finds its first hushed three-time, deep in the night. From the chord E♭−9 it draws the spirit of the narrow rue Tiquetonne at twenty past three: magenta and lavender with a split grey-green moon and a violet diamond — old walls under a half-light. It holds the square (column 2, row 3) of the mosaic, which fully assembled forms an abstract portrait of Paris.