these three panels 78x78” (198x198 cm) are interpretations of the original one and a half inch thumb-nails for the radnor triptych.  i wanted to make large scale tempera paintings in homage not to de kooning or his style but to his assumed abandon in use of medium.  he referred to this stance as a kind of ‘slipping off a tight-rope’ and a ‘glimpsing’ of a vision he intended to capture. he descrbed himself jokingly as ‘a slipping glimpser’.   to do this, i believe, he let the size and scale of his work take over his kinesis as a moving body as he applied the paint.  i tried to achieve this feeling of unity.   much as my thumb-nails, at about one and a half inch square each, had a unity at least partly commanded by the micro-proprioceptivity of my thumb and index--why do you think they call them thumb-nails?    -dm