“Both sets of paintings feature looping, ribbonlike gestures of brightly differing paints.”

“In The Medical Student, for instance, he gives us a blue and white sky that, though light in hue, heavily descends from the top of the canvas in thick, ribbonlike swaths.”

“Histologically, the tumor was composed of trabecular and anastomosing ribbonlike nests, identical to the features of carcinoid tumors of other sites.”