24 boulevard des Italiens - Paris 9, 23h20

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 D♭maj9 it draws the spirit of the boulevard des Italiens at twenty past eleven: purple and an orange arc, red and blue, magenta against a wide field of dark navy — the Grands Boulevards late at night. It holds the square (column 9, row 7) of the mosaic, which fully assembled forms an abstract portrait of Paris.