White

"White" Study [1988] 11x14 Contact Print

White as a concept, a quality, a color.

White light as the combination of all colors--white light.

White as purity, incorruptible, bland, clean, empty.

White as simplicity.

Shades of density, ranges of intensity.

White notes.

White people.

White houses.

White paper.

Gauze curtains on a still afternoon.

White bedspread in a colonial house on Cape Cod.

White flesh of the sea bass.

White dove.

An egg.

A white rose.

White M&M's.

White aspirins.

White eyes in a black mask.

Snow white.

The blankness of nothing.