Email by MLK on 23/03/2020 about MLK.127 and MLK.128:

They are made looking after the composition and color palate of a Delacroix watercolor. This thematic of dramatizing, enlarging and changing mediums of these orientalist painters works, is a continuation on the themes of the previous show two hands on earth. Here, lifted from a drawing of a journal page the work itself divided in to two pages. As the title suggests I cut the title of the Delacroix work and transpose it into our post Haussman city we know today, a man made landscape, where mountainsides were created with explosives in the popular park in the Bellville neighborhood. Inside This transposition I also see a relationship to expression - where we find ourselves mitigated through these layers of pictorial history, and so, following this thought, the movement, and expression depicted in this work, also the read through this passage of time and translation of a reference to an interpretation.

I attached a reference image so you understand. [see tab OTHER]

This is where the watercolor comes from:
L'Album des Pyrénées
Trésor national acquis en 2004 par l'État pour le musée du Louvre grâce au mécénat de Lusis, en application des dispositions fiscales de la loi du 4 janvier 2002 relative aux musées de France.

Eugène DELACROIX
Charenton-Saint-Maurice (Val-de-Marne), 1798 - Paris, 1863

Torrent dévalant d'une montagne
Aquarelle, sur traits de graphite
Annotations au graphite : L'écume rose vert blanc/ciel/reflet et transparent/jour d'en haut/refl[et]/clair du ciel/brun n[oir]

Partie d'un album à couverture cartonnée de couleur verte, dos de basane, comprenant 62 feuillets.

Vue du torrent du Valentin, dessinée par Delacroix lors de son séjour dans la station thermale des Eaux-Bonnes, située au pied des Pyrénées. Deux autres vues du même torrent se trouvent aux folios 31 verso, 32 verso et 33 recto de l'album.