...The world that the viewer beholds in [the] nocturnal realm of Dream Fragments, Dark Columns, and Departing Spirits…is neither gentle nor comforting. It is a world of unruly passions and impending catastrophe, a world in which the earth itself seems to quake and the forces of nature are rarely at rest.
There are few fixed horizontal or settled verticals in this pictorial world … neither the heavens nor the ground beneath our feet is ever free of disturbance, commotion, or peril...
