Draft # infinity :    Last Tweeked - 2/5/12 

    Much of my imagery is hard to grasp at first, at least the way I want them to be grasped, and that's intentional.   Whether you see what I was really intending the first time you look at it (or not) or the second time, or next week, doesn't indicate success or failure to me, as long as you see it eventually.   A perfect result for me would be eliciting a big 'Ohhhh!' when the subject matter is finally realized by the viewer, even if it had to be divulged by me.   If I need to list reasons why what I painted is what I'm saying it is, then one of us doesn't know what I'm doing.

    My working titles usually would be dead give-aways, so I often make the final title more cryptic, so the opportunity for an "Ohhhh!" not be lost.   I have, on occasion, made names up that aren't related to it at all, just so I can talk about it, without really talking about it, (mostly to myself).

    I like to explore new techniques and then experiment with doing them wrong.  (The happiest of accidents are lucky).  If a piece is progressing nicely, (and behaving itself: doing what I want it to, when I want it to) then I often feel more free to let 'process' take over and that's when really cool things sometime happen.   This is  usually late at night.  Currently I am developing ideas that provide for some reckless abandon inspite of myself.