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Mike, I like the same things as Chris and agree but the point is really about our instincts to read artwork like a printed page and the pre-existing "habit" many of us have. Even with all that's pleasing and right with your work I'd like it more in reverse. Some people out there can flip images (on-line) and I really think this work would be stronger still- flipped. In the studio I do it naturally with a mirror.
We examine paintings in art books all the time that change greatly when you view them "in Mirror"...if we do not have pre-existing bias then they should not appear so very different. They should be equally nice either way. But there is always a best, which to me suggests a bias. Look at "El Jaleo" or the "Boit Daughters" in reverse. This not about what we're familiar with either. It works on pieces seen for the first time.
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