Untitled (i23-3391), 1997, is a rare example of Harold Cohen’s large-scale figurative oil paintings produced during the later development of AARON. Geometric architectural forms and bold fields of saturated blue, crimson, and yellow reveal the remarkable sophistication of the programme by the late 1990s, as it developed increasingly complex relationships between figure, space, and colour that Cohen would subsequently realise by hand.

The composition depicts two front-facing figures set within a liminal space defined by five interlocking colour planes. Balancing abstraction with figuration, the stylised forms, with their elongated limbs and angled poses, convey both movement and psychological presence, whilst a large potted tree to the left of the canvas introduces an organic element into the composition. Whilst Cohen’s earlier 'Jungle series' featured plants and foliage that were loose and unrestrained, here they become potted, bought into the domestic sphere.

The meeting of the algorithmic and the painterly is especially evident in the crisp graphic boundaries defining each chromatic zone. While the controlled contours retain the visual clarity of machine-generated drawing, the hand-applied oil paint introduces texture, modulation, and material variation. At this stage Cohen could not programme AARON to shade in colour, and therefore this had to be done by hand.

Related works from this period were exhibited in Harold Cohen: AARON at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2024.