This morning I made another painting. In fact, I could not wait to get to my paints, brushes, and one of the remaining plain wooden boards that still languish in the attic. Both sides of the board ended up rather stark. On one side I put a slightly streamlined rendering of the glass screen from my favorite doorway in central Zagreb (“Mondrian in Zagreb,” July 7, 2010). This is another joke on abstraction, as the painting is realistic to boot. There is no abstraction whatsoever in it. On the other side I put an entoptic form that consists of two letters “H” standing next to each other. As this letter is pronounced “ha” in Croatian, the composition spells “ha, ha.” Far from subtle, but hopefully more effective for that very reason. Perhaps the last silly joke on abstraction, too. Returning to the glass screen from the doorway, this painting definitely falls in the category of no-bullshit Mondrians I introduced in the Nineties (“No-Bullshit Mondrians,” August 19, 1998). I can imagine him frowning at the starkness. And making a few involuntary steps backwards.