Are there times that I wish I could just paint something in that abstract expressionist vein and be done with three pieces by lunch? Ok, no, not really. My work takes a long time, and that’s Ok with me since I really don’t know any other way to express stuff so I guess I’ll have to be satisfied with that.

Because I want layers of separation between the elements in this piece, I took all the pieces I really wanted to work with and pasted them down on brown kraft paper and cut them out again. In case you were wondering, it takes hours to do this, but in the end I have lots of stuff to work with. Yeah, I said that before, but it’s a process. So another day of cutting and pasting and cutting brings a pile of good results.