Six-Sided Picture A, B & C (CMMYYC: Irvine, California, July 16th, 2008, Fuji Crystal Archive type C, Mirrored) is a photogram triptych by Walead Beshty made in 2008. The works in this series are photograms made from folding sheets of light-sensitive photographic paper. A photogram is an image made without a camera by placing an object directly onto the surface of a light-sensitive material and then exposing it to light. The result is an X-Ray type of image where the light areas are the parts of the image that were covered by the object and the dark areas represent the areas where the light exposed the photosensitive material. In this iteration, Beshty’s three photograms represent an abstract arrangement of colorful geometric shapes. Their surfaces are brimming with large overlapping shapes with intersecting lines of cyan blue, yellow, and magenta. More shapes and colors are created where these larger geometric shapes meet, such as the blue and yellow overlapping to create a forest green triangle in the upper left of the second picture, or where blue and magenta trapezoids are continuously layered in the bottom third of the first photogram to the point that the deep purple created looks nearly black. Between these colorful shapes are large open areas of white where the artist laid cut pieces of paper down, therefore not exposing those areas of the photosensitive paper below. The works in this series are titled in relation to how they were made. Beshty’s system tells us that this piece was folded six times. A, B & C refer to the three consecutive photograms that compose this triptych. While the initials CMMMYC refer to the specific spectrum of color that was used—in this case Cyan, Magenta, Magenta, Magenta, Yellow, and Cyan. Lastly, Beshty includes the location and date where the work was produced and the type of paper that was used.