Rue Mouffetard - Paris 5, 09h20

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. The dance gathers pace through the morning. From the chord E♭−7 it draws the spirit of the top of rue Mouffetard at twenty past nine: black and blue, olive-green and a purple block, a white square, orange at the edge — the cobbled street stirring. It holds the square (column 4, row 5) of the mosaic, which fully assembled forms an abstract portrait of Paris.