Ceiling (above Freud's couch, noon effect, 19 Berggasse, Vienna, Austria, February 18, 1994)
Fresco on wood panel
44" x 65"
1994

Study of the light at noon on the ceiling of Sigmund Freud’s consultation room in Vienna, the visual focal point for patients during psychoanalysis. The elliptical shape references John Ruskin’s determination of the closest geometrical equivalent to the shape of the human field of vision.