"what is this a drawing of?" "my 4 year old niece drew it" "she wanted to draw three sisters" "but there are only two of you who are sisters" "but maybe she wishes she was part of the two of you, being a sister to the two of you, instead of niece and a daughter" "maybe" "or maybe she just likes sisters" "maybe they are the sisters from something she was reading, like cinderella or something" "but maybe she wants a sister instead of a brother" "who knows what she was thinking at the time?"

"a stage is a place where anything can happen" a painting is a place where anything can happen. does that sound kind of hokey? maybe all the characters and everything on the surface is. it could all just disappear.

and if there seems to be a slight anxiety or something teetering on the verge of slippage, it's because there is!  An anxiety in the unknown, of what could happen when materials combine.  And a language of marks that document the making.