"Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea
which at Twenty Metres Becomes the Portrait of Abraham Lincoln,"
1976.

Or, as I'd always thought it was called, "Lincoln in Dalívision."
Maybe I got that from an ad by some copywriter
who thought the original title was too long and obscure.
Anyway, three years after Harmon,
Dalí took the Lincoln image and added his wife naked.
Amazmusingly it still works about as well.
It's his usual blend of Surrealism with a little Pop and Op for þavoring,
and with Harmon very much at the core.

I think the Dalí piece has been much more widely seen.
I do Þnd it amazing work,
but I think there's a purity and corresponding brilliance to the Harmon version.
In several other works Dalí does dabble with constant density graphics,
but these I did not see until much later.

The two Lincoln's however, I saw a long time ago and have never stopped thinking about them since.
In fact at JPL I created a constant area portrait of Dilly Sheldon.
It's the only constant area piece I've ever done.

I wonder if she still calls herself "Dilly?"






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