Two Curves As I began to paint "Two Curves," I vacillated between its current title and another having more to do with Man's attempt at duplicating "natural" elements in architecture. Its first title was simply -- "Man's attempts." But I was more interested in the simpler title of "Two Curves" because it was beautiful how the curve of the moon and the curve of the reconstructed parabola "answered" one another in terms of their design and placement. This is a very simple painting and I have intentionally not filled the sky with a maze of stars. The violet sky with its complimentary colored (yellow) moon go well together. The curves are both "relaxed" looking. The original plan to focus more on something "of Man's" creation was set aside for another painting. It has been included though. The parabola is a curve found so often in nature. Man has used it to build Gothic arches in tall churches. He has also used it in his calculations to "whip" distant scientific satellites around large planets so they can gain extremely high speed, sending them farther out into space. Both curves are slightly different in their arcs. Man's curve is busy with color. Nature's moon curve is appropriately just one. Back