I like it too, Freda, especially the transparent overlapping effects. I like the abstract ones in particular. I can't make an abstract picture myself, and only some abstract pictures feel complete for me. Paul Klee, for example. I'm not sure what it is, maybe something like a sense of place, some sense of reference to things.

   The aesthetics I identify with are often literary, maybe because I'm interested mostly in fiction, representation. So the critic Greenberg makes no sense to me--he makes no distinction between real space and the illusion of it. So much for fiction as art.

   I disagree with Plato about music--I think if it doesn't seem to represent something to us, somehow, it's just noise. Tolstoy's story The Kreutzer Sonata comes closer to what I think (without all the psycopathic misogeny). Music is representational, but on the sly. That's why music you can't get into, or identify with, sounds like noise.

If any of that makes sense, that's pretty much my handbag of notions. Might post some of my stuff, sometime.