Kaleidoscope with Monograms, dated 1996 and 2001, is so laden with name and monogram as to constitute a self portrait, the serpentine line of blue bubbles a possible reference to the oxygen to which he was now tethered. Self Portrait with Heretic Mask and Kaleidoscope with Palm are both highly personal images, based on the familiar compositional principles and finished in 2001. Bud did not have time to work more on his 1999 Starburst. Works in progress give insight to method. Bucky Ball With Blue Hands intrigued him enough to prompt him to consider a version in alabaster, but when asked, a week before his death, where these last works were taking him he responded, “I don’t know.” That, too, was part of his process.