Quartet

Quartet presents four discrete elements — figures, objects, or a combination — given equivalent compositional weight, the title's musical reference suggesting a formal balance among four distinct but related voices. Kelly's still life work often arranges objects in small groupings where each item retains its individuality while contributing to an overall harmony, and Quartet makes that structural principle explicit. The four subjects listed include figures alongside still life, suggesting a scene in which human and object presences are interleaved rather than separated into foreground and background. In woodblock terms, a composition of four elements invites careful attention to negative space and the intervals between forms. The musical title may also nod to the jazz associations that surface elsewhere in Kelly's work.