After looking at the Broadway Boogie Woogie for days, and the image grew blurrier, I decided that attacking my vision of the painting arbitrarily would do me some good. This could be a template for everything! Everyone yelled at me for thinking about it too much. "JUST DO IT!"

I don't know the truth of the painting, but it seems to represent activity and acceleration. I entertained the notion that the painting was a neo plasticene representation of an active city. The portion of focus is two main intersections, though I believe that the painting does not represent in full what may truly be there. Many call Mondrian's work grids or maps; I feel as though the boogie woogie is a map of avenues and streets of a thriving, utopian society, an animated painting of line and color signifying vertical and horizontal movement of individuals.

Jazz was an inspiration and Mondrian, after moving to the states, wanted to put more "boogie woogie" into his expression. People create the tempo and their actions caused the erratic visual movement of the yellow and blue and red and gray. The colors disturb one another and seem too arbitrary to be assigned meaning within a code or value chart. The style, as it was considered, was one of harmony and equilibrium of vertical and horizontal, and though the colors are not seemingly harmonized, the geometry is balanced, and color concentrations represent concentrated area.

Buildings exist within the social activity to orient ones self, but are not highlighted within the city scape. The few large blocks of color, as I read them, signify a larger collection of people, perhaps in a car or large building. My notion is that these people, venues, and means of transport involve the upright bass, stacatto rhythms, and all that involved another form of social movement, jazz. I attempted "real" architecture, but there is no need for much environmental surveillance, since people, as I see it, are the focus.

dance, dance, dance, dance