I’d kind of like to have it both ways. Lot’s of possibilities and lots of solutions that work. But instead there are lot’s of possibilities and not a lot of solutions that will work.

“Continuity of color development is achieved through successful, successive development of the color scales. These are comparable to the tone scales in music. The can be played in major or in minor. Each color scale follows again a rhythm entirely its own. The rhythmic development of the red scale differs from that of the blue scale or the yellow scale, etc. The development of the color scales spreads over the whole picture surface, and its orientation, in relation to the picture surface, is of utmost importance.”

What I like about Whitney’s work is how he has interwoven all the colors, so that each color both relates to its neighbor and to the picture as a whole. The beauty of it, and I think the quality that makes it a painting is that they are felt relationships. They can’t be explained. There isn’t a theory about why these colors go together in this relationship. I would hesitate to call it a puzzle in that with a puzzle there is only one possibility. But here, with color there are infinite possibilities. It’s like jazz improve. The wide variety of just Whitney’s work for me is testament to that idea. While I don’t know much about Whitney’s work or his process, I have a strong sense of his intuitive sense of color. His capacity to feel and communicate in color.