Fig. 3, Ida, Duncan, and I: Translation #18

"Fig. 3 Ida, Duncan, and I: Translation #18," is a small, square painting reminiscent of a Valentine. Three people are painted within the heart. The heart's perimeter line is painted in serial fashion concentrically, so the heart "grows" outward toward the edge of the canvas in polychrome splendor. The figures inside the heart are (from left to right): Ida Hodes, Robert Duncan, and Jess. Hodes is a Bay Area poet and friend of Duncan and Jess. The painting is based on a photograph of the three friends posing under the Golden Gate Bridge in 1957. Near the bottom, Jess has painted the title of the work. On the back of the painting is an excerpt from the poem by Dant Gabriel Rossetti, "The Sea Limits."