Especially if the artist would inscribe it.

Three of the gallery's walls have been turned into monumental blackboards, onto which the artist has inscribed chalk drawings of a rotating gazebo, a stationary roller coaster and a cartoon explosion.

Less literal-minded and theatrical is Ms. Ewing's flattened version of a colonnade, a kind of Robert Venturi-like facade across the lintel of which the artist has inscribed "you are fighting back the wilderness."

Each includes the outline of a duck or a boat (mostly it is the duck, or ducks), which the artist includes as if inscribing his signature.

And all three artists inscribed some of the smaller works for sale last night to Douglas Cooper.

In many cases the artist has inscribed his own poem on the surface of his painting in what amounts to a virtuoso multimedia solo performance.

From a distance they look like luminous, loosely expressionistic paintings; up close you see that the artist has inscribed the surface with fine lines, creating an allover crystalline pattern and a visionary, microcosmic space (Johnson).

Up close you can see that the artist has inscribed into this pattern a dense network of tiny ovals, giving the surface a pleasingly activated texture.

Across the arms the artist has inscribed his name in large Latin letters: + Drahmal me worhte ('Drahmal made me').

In still others, and there are many of these, the artist has inscribed his own poem directly onto the painting as the final touch in a virtuoso multimedia performance.