"As the Heart Finds the Good Thing, the Feeling is Multiplied"
Acrylic, Prismacolor, and graphite on canvas
October, 2009

The title of this piece is borrowed from "The Good Thing" by the Talking Heads. All I really do is borrow. The kids in this painting were all in the local newspaper. The towers in the background and the figures in the door are from an illuminated manuscript. I select, I assimilate, and I assemble. There is no real plan to it, I just wait for the right elements to come along, which is why this piece took so long to complete.
Painting as a response to external stimuli is nothing new, but it is indispensable to the painter. I am not the first to say that I enjoy arranging more than creating but I find it to be true. When I had to describe this piece to someone yesterday without being able to show it to them, all I could really do was list the ingredients- as for the composition itself, I was at a loss for words.