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This is a complicated, multi-layered abstract painting that, if one is acquainted with the body of work of which this painting is a part, also contains obliquely representational landscape elements. Walker has applied the paint in several layers. The first layer consists of a muddy, greenish brown all-over wash. The second layer seems to be blue and black calligraphic gestural brush strokes and several blue splotches, punctuated by blue swatches of color that are visible along the left-hand side of the canvas and also contained within the bulbous 'z'-like shape at the right center of the painting. In several areas of the painting, Walker has added muddy brown splotches that are roughly circular in configuration. They are composed of both paint and natural material - possibly sand - and have a gritty, earthy texture. The final layer consists of more calligraphy and splotching - this time in red - as well as the red 'z'-like shape that forms a unifying symbolic motif throughout this body of work.