Rue de Turbigo - Paris 3, 05h20

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. First light, and the waltz turns in three-time on the stone. From the chord D♭maj9 it draws the spirit of rue de Turbigo, the haussmannian cut, at twenty past five: greys opened by a blue arc and a flash of red — the first light on stone. It holds the square (column 3, row 1) of the mosaic, which fully assembled forms an abstract portrait of Paris.