Painted in Normandy in 2002, exhibited in Paris 2003. The work is abstract but is meant to have the impact of a scene or tableau— at once landscape and stage set — a largely stark space interrupted by checkpoints, scaffolds, armatures, perhaps even human shapes in procession or in states of waiting . It is a world of strong contrasts, and draws on personal yet historical associations which are particular yet far-reaching. These range from Apartheid South Africa to various 21st Century sites of conflict, blocked access, surveillance, harsh border demarcations, artificial structures of power or defiance. My Normandy studio was near the DDay beaches of WW2 so that is a yet prior layer.