Abstract Titles / Catalog #'s
Before you start thinking there is any deep meaning to the titles of the abstract work, allow me to ruin the mystique for you. I have to identify them for various reasons, so I gave them these catalog numbers. It's for inventory control and so I have a better chance of shipping the exact painting the client actually wants.
My process for figuring out what the catalog numbers are involves a benign brain condition I have called grapheme-color synesthesia. My brain reflexively associates each letter with a perticular hue. The abstract titles are the letters that, for me, invoke the colors that make up each painting.
So take a look at these colorless tomatoes depicted in this artist rendering. They feel red. It's not a hallucination, but in your mind they feel red, right? Well that is exactly how letters are to me. Each one has always had a certain color, always the same, some more intense than others. S is intense red like these tomatoes. It's supposed to make the person very good at spelling, but I am absolutely awful at spelling. In fact I just spelled "awful" so badly that spell check had no idea what I was trying to say. My F7 key has a shiny spot where it used to say "F7." Of course they didn't invent F7 until right after I was out of high school. Would have probably changed my life! Probably be a PhD or something by now.