This is a large framed oil on canvas from 1983 was made during the cold era and represents my transitional period from "Dots". I started painting with large amounts of white, and used it both for it's power and beauty and for a possible representation of the cold war. My art at this time had elements floating, or ringing the edges and were like stage sets. In this piece a Nuclear Era Sea floats on this expanse of white glossy oil paint, and forms a frame inside a frame in a minimalist representational state. At that time it confronted what would happen if superpowers fought it out, but today is seen as something quite different than it's intended meaning. It seems almost environmental with pollution lighting up in the sunset, an ode to global warming, or a freezing ice age shift in the weather patterns and it is a backdrop for a stage-like television, or a video screen of the environment. Framed it is 58" x 48"