Boulevard Saint-Michel - Paris 5, 10h00

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 D♭maj9 it draws the spirit of the haussmannian blocks of the boulevard Saint-Michel at ten: navy and grey, blue and an orange flash, a white square — stone in mid-morning. It holds the square (column 4, row 7) of the mosaic, which fully assembled forms an abstract portrait of Paris.