This piece has been underway for quite some time now and think sometimes I have the end vision “too much” in mind and that causes a stall for whatever reason- I really do not know. I have spent a lifetime teaching myself to allow for the unexpected and to set myself to find the unexpected in each work. After many decades I find I am still surprised if I let myself be. . . …

This cormorant piece started on a 18” x 36” wood panel as I have been trying to break from the square format for whatever reason- Not that I did not enjoy the direction of the piece, the composition, nor the mark making but a gut feeling kept me pushing this work to the back of the studio as I started countless new one. Then by chance a new paintings, through a series of “small studio/stacked pantings” situations, made the Cormorant piece whole and yes, a square again ;-) A bit more work and the screwing of the panels together then also brought me the dreaded question: To Frame or Not to Frame. . .. . .. . .

And Frame it was.