Shelter for a Small Dream

A black umbrella becomes an eccentric suspended frame for a narrow, yellow-toned picture, its hooked handle extending below like a pendulum. Inside the dark rectangular border, a hazy miniature scene suggests a reclining figure, a small animal, and drifting forms beneath a luminous wash of ochre and pale green. The stark white ground isolates the object, giving the carefully centered arrangement the quiet strangeness of a constructed surrealist tableau.