In this series of works on paper, the art world characters who posed for "Synergistic Adversaries" make “cameo” or star appearances amidst recognizable motifs from their own work. Portraits of the sitters as well as of their works, they intrinsically wed the creator to the creation; both are portrayed with equal importance.

Ross Bleckner, for example, is portrayed as an iconic albeit skeptical saint, surrounded by funerary urns that refer to his own elegiac black paintings from the 80s, which themselves referred to the AIDS epidemic. Here, the golden vapors of spirits lost to AIDS pour out from the urns into the lapis blue night sky to become constellations in the Byzantine stars. Inka Essenhigh is portrayed surrounded by her signature amorphous creatures playing hide and seek around her like mischievous cartoons running amok.