Agatha Christie
from Genomic
24" x 96"
acrylic on canvas
2005
Private Collection, Houston, Texas
Exhibitions
Houston, Texas, Genomic Preview, June 16, 2006
Bering & James, Houston, Texas, Cinco, August 25 - September 22, 2007
Bering & James, Houston, Texas, Genomic, November 2 - 23, 2007
The second long-format genomic on the gallery’s opening wall, Agatha Christie spans 24" x 96"—a horizontal field of visual tension and coded recursion. The canvas moves through cellular abstraction, chromatic gradients, checkerboard logic, sports iconography, and symbolic notation. Each band feels like a clue, but none resolve.


Between the football players and the central portrait, overlapped schematics of firearms interrupt the rhythm—technical, latent, and quietly volatile. The portrait itself is stylized: a figure in hat and muted tones, rendered in brown, pink, and green. To its right, a fragment of Cellarius’ Harmonia Macrocosmica appears in navy and brown—cosmic geometry folded into the genomic field.
The Tarot card—Ten of Wands—sits beneath the Roman numeral X, pressed against a pink damask background. A signal of accumulation, burden, and quiet collapse.


Agatha Christie withholds its mystery. A canvas of symbolic layering and emotional drift, designed to stretch across the wall and open Phase Two with tension, and unresolved logic.