She breathed in the cool Japanese atmosphere she had worked to create for him, looked at the slatted chairs, the pale greys, the yellows.

He eyed me with a pair of pale greys that seemed too large for his small head.

Two horse-chairs followed close behind, the first carried by a pair of pale matched greys and escorted by a young cleric on a white mule.

In an enchanting white-on-white image, a woman's arm and the fingers of her hand beneath her body are delicately outlined by the palest grays.

The most recent work, from 2002, is an organic form in pale grays and whites that suggests an ethereal flower.

The second tale, "Little Worm," takes us into a world of pale grays.

In some of the new canvases she revisits the simple forms and pale grays of early, just-arrived-in-New-York work.

'There were lots of pale greys and whites,' she recalls.

She had dressed the bed in Donna Karan Home, in pale grays and creams.

In "Barometer" (1992), a similar technique yields an Arctic feel, pale grays and whites chilling the surface.