Flavin’s interest in the play of sequences and variations is clearly evidenced in Untitled (for Fredericka and Ian) 1–4 (1987), a series of four individual works that each employ the same composition of five diagonally oriented lamps, but whose colors vary according to a permutational arrangement of red, pink, yellow, blue, and green light. Whether seen separately or together, the works in this series embody what Flavin described as his goal of producing “a sequence of implicit decisions to combine traditions of painting and sculpture in architecture with acts of electric light defining space.”
