A painted picture frame, depicting a character from one of my all-time favorite children's books: the spider Charlotte A. Cavatica of E. B. White's Charlotte's Web.

For Yasmin Angelika, January 2003.

Just my fancy way of saying hello.

The lettering of the word "Salutations" is done in the style of the book title in the classic illustration.

The individual filaments took a lot longer to paint than you might think: I had to dilute the acrylic paint until it had the consistency of cream, and work in short segments.

After I completed this piece, I noticed an astonishing (and accidental) similarity between its major features and those of Timeframe: big spiral at upper-left, smaller spiral at middle-right, pendulum down the left side, and arcs lower-left and upper-center. Clearly I have an aesthetic sense which breaks up the rectangle this way. I'll have to be aware of it when designing future works.