A companion to Green Spheres (302) — the same subject matter and compositional approach, but more chromatic and more formally ambitious. Where 302 focuses on two or three large hedge spheres against a single trunk, this work gives us an entire canopy of rounded forms — four or five large spherical masses in different tones of green and teal-blue, pressed together and seen from slightly above, their outlines defined in the same rich dark purple that animated the earlier work.
The colors here are more varied and more confident: a brilliant lime-yellow-green at left, a cooler teal-blue at center, a medium green at right — three different greens that create a full chromatic range within the single hue. The junctions between the spheres, defined in dark purple, have a jewel-like quality — each meeting point an event, a decision, a line that carries energy.
Looking down through gaps between the spheres, warm amber-brown earth tones are visible, giving depth to the composition. The yellow-orange patches scattered across the upper and lower edges — like coins of light on grass — are painted with the same casual certainty as everything else: marks that know what they're doing.
The shift in viewpoint from 302 — slightly higher, more aerial — creates a different relationship to the subject. These are not spheres to walk up to and touch but a canopy seen from above, a landscape at the scale of a garden looked down into. The two works together suggest Sidney returning to the same place or same subject at different distances and angles, working out the formal problem of rounded forms in light.