Philomene Pirecki, 2008, oil on canvas, 35.6 x 25.5 cm

Dear Philomene, 

As you know, I’d like to reproduce that deceptively modest painting of yours — the one whose primary colors combine to spell out their composite and form their own frame — on the cover of this last Dot Dot Dot.

–“A Word on the Cover,” Stuart Bailey, Dot Dot Dot #20, 2010