"Japanese Vampire Cat" Painting

1949 Tiffin, Ohio

Apprentice to the father of colored Op Art - S.H.Rogoff who presented the double or reverse after-image in 1952 and corrected the errors associated to Simultaneous Contrast touted by Albers to redefine the issue with Simultaneous Presence.

One of the nicer honors given by his congressional representive was the comment that when they reorganized the color ordering of the Street and highway signs back in the early fifties was 'We will have saved a lot a lives'. I like reminding Hal by now the 'Lot of Lives' is much more like sn 'Enormous amount of Lives'.


Being trained under the artist who wrote the governing rules of the new american (Mid West) art form to be - op art - with his thesis 'Optical Illusion and Vibrational theory" Yale 1952, I was fully aware of the total failure to get a grip on the oddest of all colors Brown. I was also tasked to find a way to place in some proportional fashion more than two of the vibrational and illusional colors at a time. Knowing full well that the advance in color knowledge was a looking upon Native American color usage I chose to explore while at my task a recent archeological design dug up in the South American region. Hilariously the Archeologists to this date can't figure out what was going, as they fail to figure why the volutes are on those flutes or in the new recent digging how stupid they are to call the new temple 'The temple of the fire' without realizing that the ancient ones were tooting their flutes and flickering thier fires on this very first of all after-image systems composed of mutitude number of perceptual levels. Its like figuring these folks who often like using grant fundings from J Albers foundation are not very bright reciepients of too much good money wasted (except admittedly their profound and proper usage of shovels). But maybe some day when those folks look at the Ramondi Stone and they grip on great abstract artwork they might have a eureka moment and go oh they had the Pulfric effect thousand of years before some scientists in the 1800's could figure their buns from a hole in the ground.