Parade, The Revelations of St. John (Green Version), Heaven

Parade, oil and enamel on canvas, 20 X 42 in, 1999. This work is a meeting of forms: one, a blue fractal form developed by Long; the other, a yellow mysterious form that seems to meet and pass over the blue one. The yellow form is one that intrigued Long when he found it as a child's chalkmark scribbled on a sidewalk in Soho. This work is a commentary on the randomness of forms, the appearance of fractality everywhere. (© Jim Long)

The Revelations of St. John (Green Version), oil on canvas, 56 X 56 in, 1997. The Revelations of St. John demonstrates a kind of fractal minimalism in its hard-edged, razor-cut images. Yet the work as a whole has a lyricism controlled by the analytical fractal impulses that float and hover in the artist's work. (© Jim Long) (Jim Long, 117 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012, U.S.A.)

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