These little abstracts have been a part of my creative practice for about 17 years.  They are spontaneous, and carry no expectation or pressure.  They are just bursts of color, lines and shapes.  I usually do them before I go to bed.  I have stacks of them that I keep in baskets.  Sometimes I look through them they same way I look through my box of photographs. Sometimes I see something in them that I hadn’t noticed before.  A form or story… a theme or emotion…. They are a moment of my life documented on paper.  The way they come about is not contrived.  They just spill out in a technique that I don’t employ in more intentional paintings.  They teach me things not only about how mark making tools act or interact, but about the subconscious things inside me that want to be expressed.