Making good work takes time. Visual memories, ideas, and sense of direction for the work all need to cook in the brain for a while before hitting the canvas.This new series, both in process and visuality explores the rustic, primitive aspects of nature while being connected to the humanness of wanting to experience order in something unknown, beautiful, carefree, and even scary. Its colors are layered with shadows, revealing only a few, hopeful and beautiful bright spots. The series reaches just the right balance of dark and light, minimal and textural. It is both where I am from and where I am headed.