"This is like a snake plant ... darting from one place to another. It is full of sproutings that point up ... that will start others. It has a fantastic inner life ... ready to spring ... so impetuous and strong, but also erratic ... At the right is a little animal, a yellow jacket. A yellow jacket can smell fear. If it is attacked, or thinks it will be attacked, it will dart." 

This high quality limited edition print maintains the texture of the marks made in the ink drawing and the ghostly traces of the pencil under-drawing and signs of its partial erasure.

Print made for the 1984 retrospective exhibition (1947-84) at Galerie Maeght Lelong, Paris in an edition of 2000.