b'TOPS AND BOTTOMS ReturningoverandovertothesameSheepMeadowsite, Ruttenberg works from fifteen-foot-wide rolls of paper spread on the ground, each one half the height of her monumental landscapes. As an experiment, she had photographs of the skyline of 59 thStreet inkjet printed onto a roll of her working paperasanuppersectionmatrix. Thevisualpowerofthe inkjet image immediately provoked more multimedia options, and she seized the opportunity to print photographic images of sections of the skyline interspersed with graphically nearly indistinguishablephotographsofherexactingfree-hand drawings of other sections of the skyline. Using painstaking photographic and editing processes, a lively pencil sketch of the canopy of dangling branches and leaves completed the 15-foot-wideinkjetprintoftheskyline,partphotographic image, part meticulous drawing. She has been fascinated to match this singular upper matrix to multiple watercolors of the meadow. The stunning variety of compositional interactions betweentheinkjetandeachdifferentlowersectionisan objectlessonintheintricaciesofcompositionalalignment and visual balance in the representation of a single place of constant flux.Central Park Watercolor Study #36, Poured Yellow, 2015-2018Ink jet, fluorescent acrylic, watercolor, gold leaf on paper115 x 193 1/2inches38 39'