Rue des Petits-Carreaux - Paris 2, 04h00

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 rue des Petits-Carreaux at four o'clock: teal and magenta over olive and shadow, a white square holding the dark — just before the market stirs. It holds the square (column 2, row 5) of the mosaic, which fully assembled forms an abstract portrait of Paris.