When I was very young my father's squadron was transferred to Hawaii for Combat duty off Vietnam. We moved to Eva Beach at Pearl Harbor when I was in second grade. After our long trans-oceanic flight on a sparkling new 747 with a spiral staircase a seemingly limitless supply of free Ginger Ale, the family attended a big movie premier held in a beautiful new circular Cinemascope theater in downtown Honolulu. I remember the movie was "Krakatoa, East of Java," about the historic explosion that demolished island and created a killer tsunami and altered the world's weather patterns for the following two years. While my father was off to War, a film company used my neighborhood and the beach across from our elementary school to film "Tora, Tora, Tora," so I had an early opportunity to watch Hollywood stage war on my playground while my father fought one. This painting is an edge-to-edge construct of layers of squares arranged in strings of diamond forms with a single congruent side along an existing layer. The volcano suggested itself early on and I steered the formulae of string construction and the choice of transparent pigments to reinforce the suggestion. This is my third volcano painting, the others being "Wizard of Space and Time" and "This Is Has No Name."