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Richard Tuttle's reference to the landscape is more obscure. The light blue swatch of color, in the shape of an envelope, recalls the New Mexico landscape, as one would conjure a memory. So diminutive and light, New Mexico, New York #9, 1998, gives the impression that it could fade away at any moment. Yet, like the material and the space it creates around itself, the sky exudes a buoyancy and sense of expansion, mirroring the wide open vistas of the American Southwest, which the artist encapsulates and brings with him to New York (his other place of residence). Tuttle’s evocation of the landscape is further marked by the horizon line of the envelope’s flap and the curving stripe of lighter paint, which suggests an unrestricted desert road.
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