Déjeuner sur l'herbe

This monumental painting is my conversation with Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, a French image that has stayed with me for years. I did not want to make that conversation alone, so my fellow artist Antoine Favre painted the central section with a tighter, more representational hand against my looser, more gestural reading of the scene. The work holds that collaboration openly, with two rhythms meeting inside the same homage.