Ultra Fractal 5.04 (18-layers within UF, and a further one used in Painter). The linkage to Frank Stella is somewhat tenuous and relates mainly to his one-time characteristic of adding complexity to shapes. He also had a predilection for odd shaped pictures. Something of this can be seen at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Frank_Stella's_'Harran_II',_1967.jpg where circles, rectangles, and semi-triangles are combined and with a flat colouring which tends to unite and frustrate at the same time. My use of colour is vastly different and is built on visual relationships – something which Albers would likely have approved. There is a peculiar surrealist touch, for the shadow associated with the central yellow form refuses to conform. Instead it associates with that squared, central emptiness as does its own surround. Thus “nothingness,” claims the opposite for a moment. The layer used in Painter had a particular function for the triangular shape in the lower left corner was smaller than wanted and needed to be resized to bring it to the edge of the main coloured mass. The use of a separate layer enabled the right edge of the original layer to be copied at the correct angle before it was moved upwards into position and then independently resized. It was then “boxed” back to the original triangle and in-filled with the required colour. The layer was then dropped onto the “canvas” (united with the main image). But there was still a problem for the gradient was the wrong way round. I wanted the dark side abutting against the central design so a replacement gradient infill was added within Painter. You will note the other gradients in the image have the lighter edges on the right-hand sides. The picture took about eight-hours of work to complete but the art of complexity is to make things look simple, or so I’m told (if I’m unlucky, this explanation is anything but that). Cliff