Quartier de l'Europe, rue de Naples - Paris 8, 21h20

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 draws toward its close as night falls, circling back to the prelude. From the chord E♭−7 it draws the spirit of the rue de Naples in the quartier de l'Europe at twenty past nine: blue and purple, lavender and a green half-disc, a grey circle below — quiet streets near Saint-Lazare. It holds the square (column 9, row 1) of the mosaic, which fully assembled forms an abstract portrait of Paris.