Drake's Island conjures a sense of playfulness and ease, * experienced from a slight remove—like the joyous sounds of children playing just out of view. The figures that leap across the frame are Altmann's children and their circle of friends: their shimmering, otherworldly forms seem to float in space, timeless, recalling Chagall's paintings in the cupola of the Paris opera house, to which Altmann has long been drawn.