Atlanta painter Don Cooper’s new series of paintings Fire Within is a contemplative parable told through color and geometry. The series extends Cooper’s lasting visual exploration of ineffable truths and regularities, fixing that meditative gaze on the will to create. The paintings — the majority watercolor on paper, feature recurring symbols in color palettes ranging from demurely cool to exuberantly warm tones. In a third of the group, pallid blues, diluted reds, and earthy sage greens and ochres anticipate the incendiary oranges, reds, and pinks of an inspired conflagration in other works. Expressive qualities aside, color choices within individual works and across the series are unexpected, and help establish an internal logic clear enough to read as narrative content. The series’ most obvious recurring form is the triangle, which for Cooper symbolizes a fire or passion for making things. Circles and the bindu, a yogic symbol of the universe in its unmanifested state, also appear in nearly all paintings on view. Through repetition, deviation, and deft handling of composition and color, the triangle becomes the series’ protagonist, seeming to exhibit intention, habits of motion, and persistence through time.