Untitled, from Michel Waldberg's Poèmes dans le ciel 1986

Sam Francis made this untitled print as part of Michel Waldberg's "Poèmes dans le ciel," and it's all about the joy of letting color fly. Looking closely, you can almost feel the splatters and drips as they happened. The blues are so intense, like deep pools, and then these pops of red and yellow zing across the surface. See how some areas are thick and juicy, while others are just a whisper of pigment? It’s a dance between control and chance, a real record of the process. Check out the way the blue pools connect to the thin red lines, it's almost like a map of an exploding feeling. Francis was always chasing that sense of boundless space and light in his work. It’s like he's having a conversation with painters like Joan Mitchell, pushing abstraction to its most vibrant edge. It’s not about answers, it's about keeping the questions alive.