Nature can neither be duplicated, visually represented or serve as an occasion for a plain, decorative calligraphy. Matisse used to say that “exactitude is not truth”, and this seems to be at work in this case. It is emotional tension in the painting of Denny Theocharakis that deconstructs nature and seeks the truth of “another exactitude”, seeks forms that are liberated from representation, but are committed to sensitivity, expressive force, lyrical inspiration and the restless spirit of the creator.