[Tom Edgerton]

Mike--

My understanding (limited) of the Golden Mean is that it's plotted from both ends, and top and bottom, the result being four corners of a rectangle within the composition representing the four strongest points at which one could hang something compositionally important.

I haven't plotted it on "El Jaleo," but estimating by eye, it looks like if plotted from the right end, the mean point on the upper right of the rectangle would be about at the main dancer's chin, more or less. That would bring us very quickly to the head of the main character.

Make sense?

--TE

(Juan de Pareja is the one I'd go back in after if the Met caught fire.)