And so there is the beauty of Love and the pain of lost Love. They are usually of equal intensity. This picture is about that. Emotion drenched inaccessibility. It was early Eighties and I was just becoming an absolute master of colour. I was moving away from the Zing!Crash!Bang! colour of my 70s work. It's not uncommon for 1st Symphonies to have "all the bells and whistles" and then as the Composer develops he realises that what you add is no more important than what you subtract. In other words, contrasting drama with solitude has even MORE power. There is a vast difference between succinct, laconic expression and shouting your head off (as Shakespeare would have said "Much sound and fury signifying nothing"). I'm not criticising my early use of colour, it is very daring and many prefer it - I just think my mastery of colour is now exponentially advanced. It's not a question of "Less is more" - people who talk in clichés usually become one. "Less is more" is just part of the hideous inverse rationale being applied to everything in the late 20th Century. Yes dark is light and ugliness has a beauty, up is down....... hang on... I have an even better piece of cheese...... "Less is More (More or Less)" Ha!! Anyway, it has to do with balance and counterbalance. Just trust me on that - up is never down unless you are standing on your head - and even then it doesn't last! So this counterbalance of opposites I used with the colour AND the image itself. So not only is the "kiss" emphasised by the colour versus the neutral surroundings but also because it is also the only part of the central image which is in focus. Also I had learned from my studies in colour psychology that red "advances" as a colour and the neutral would not - hence adding another dimension. I had no idea that when the girl kissed the frosted glass it would turn as clear as normal glass. I knew it would be sharper, but I discovered that it cleared whilst creating it.