With four different skewers and three different dips, the possible permutations can stretch from sunset to blue moon.
GARY MEECHES stands in his modest apartment in Meriden and shells out a pack of small paintings onto his dining room table like the card dealers at Foxwoods: acrylic paintings of nature in the crisp orange-yellows of a burning sunset, the blue of a seaside sky, the green of summer leaves.
Each canvas (also 5 by 4 feet) consists of bands of lurid tropical sunset colors — blues, purples, oranges and yellows, with occasional reds and pinks — against which are silhouetted one to three spindly black-over-green palm trees.
Growing up with these images of swaying trees and flaming sunsets, of blue skies and colorful flowers and rich scents that filled the air, I just thought the whole world was like that.
The blue sunset was spotted by the Opportunity rover — though in much less clear detail — in 2010.
THE BAR Beer, sake, a small collection of kosher wines, and fruit "mocktails" (the blue sunset is sweet and refreshing).
Look at the blue sunset photographed by Curiosity almost 1,000 Martian days into the mission, and you can't suppress a poignant twinge at the "little guy's" lonely journey.
Next, there is a small room in which a film, Plenty LA (2008), is projected onto a corner, which warps the succession of moving and still images: a glowing sunset, a tacky blue handbag, a bejeweled mobile phone, a car with a smashed bonnet, the words: "Plenty should be enough, enough, enough".
Heading south from 14th Street on Avenue A, one passes, among other Chico works, a blazing red sunset over a blue ocean; a portrait of a man labeled, "In Loving Memory of Jay, R.I.P. You'll Always Be Remembered"; rats and cockroaches on the run from a character labeled the Pest Detective; and four bandits in trench coats and 10-gallon hats guarding the side entrance to the bar Doc Holliday's.
