This is a photograph I took of a man looking at a painting in the Norton Simon Museum. I loved seeing him sitting there for a long time. And the longer I watched him (watching the painting), the more I realized that there was a mathematical beauty in not only the composition of the painting, but in the new composition created by the man sitting on the bench looking a the painting. Some months later, I noticed myself enjoying this calendar image on our refrigerator, in much the same way as the man was enjoying the painting in my photograph. I’d be waiting for the water in our tea kettle…