The conflict is most engaging when the colors do not quite harmonize, as in "The Flood Plain of Desire," in which the purple velvet of the flanking panels grates against the softer blues and pinks of the central canvas.

With the way illuminated only by its parking lights, the Hummer passed through a huge hole in the fence, where the ragged edges of the flanking panels of chain-link were as snarled as masses of string left with a playful kitten.

The flanking panels portray praying patrons with their namesake saints: Peter and Agnes.

The sketch also has flanking panels for further mural decorations around the boxes that were apparently never executed.

This assembly suggested a compositional arrangement with Christ or Mary in the centre and angels, apostles and saints in the flanking panels.

The two flanking panels are of the bird in an unruffled attitude and work to make the center image more striking.

In "Arrogance of Despair," small flanking panels contain the opposing images of an austere John the Baptist and a Harlequin.

The flanking panels are similarly disposed and ornamented.

The central structure is connected by articulated joints to three flanking panels, to which large hemispheres are attached.

Still, there are shadows that seem painted; and in the small flanking panels, they fall in opposite directions, while in the large image at the center, a flame, is licking around one of the cutoff remnants.