Marché Mouffetard / place de la Contrescarpe - Paris 5, 09h40

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 A♭7 it draws the spirit of the foot of rue Mouffetard at twenty to ten, its food market toward Saint-Médard below the cafés of the place de la Contrescarpe: blue and navy with a charge of red-orange and a white square — stalls in full morning. It holds the square (column 4, row 6) of the mosaic, which fully assembled forms an abstract portrait of Paris.