In the process of converting images from slides to digital files using a small scanner, I touch years worth of antiquated records. The first time I went through my slides with the intention of cleaning them out, my husband and I had just divorced and among my first responses to being alone was to tackle the slides that had accumulated and throw out what was unnecessary. I used to take four to five photographs of each drawing or piece, for bracketing purposes and to send out to those art people to whom I had been sending updated images for decades.

I threw out hundreds of slides. Hundreds. All the wasted minerals were cast away.

I could toss out the slides now after making digital images, but there is something romantic about keeping them. After all, they live with me. They experience what I experience. They carry my handwritten descriptions on the white cardboard borders surrounding them. The actual slides are as much an archive as the images they represent.

The group of nine Color on Color drawings, each 22-1/4 inches in height by 30 inches wide, focuses on three primary colors, three secondary colors, and black, white, and gray. Each is divided into four equal vertical sections to emphasize the arcs behind a picture plane. If the vertical lines were absent, the picture plane is not easily established.

Below is the group of nine as they are supposed to be laid out; each drawing has approximately 1/2 inch between the next both up and down. Below this image are the nine images showing the drawings that make up the group.