Rue des Martyrs - Paris 9, 22h40

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 des Martyrs in SoPi at twenty to eleven: teal and a blue square, purple and an olive half-disc, lavender against black — the village street alive at night. It holds the square (column 9, row 5) of the mosaic, which fully assembled forms an abstract portrait of Paris.