Magic

Against a black background, a large red cloth patterned with overlapping gold and silver scalloped arcs and dots drapes diagonally across the composition, its folds cascading from upper right to lower left. Above the cloth hangs a spinning top with a yellow-and-black concentric-circle finial on a thin vertical rod, while a blue sphere dotted with yellow marks rests where the cloth folds meet near the center. The stark black ground isolates these few glossy, hard-edged forms, giving the print a spare, dreamlike stillness.