Nearly two years ago I started a few paintings that were supposed to be part of a series of some sort. They were all dark backgrounds with bright neon elements and had wacky collage-like compositions. Not having any clear direction with them, any education as far as color theory or composition goes and not having the slightest bit of talent with graphic design, the series kind of fizzled out and I ended up with a handful of really busy paintings that sat and collected dust half-finished in my studio.

One was sold to my friend Christine last year in my “brokest I’ve ever been” period. One is still sitting on a wall in the Green Rice gallery, and one is currently the only painting of mine that I’ve enjoyed working on in a long time. I’m going to wrap it up soon, but it’s nice not having a set plan for it. I just draw different things on it with a white pencil and if they don’t work, I wipe it away. If they do work, I paint them on. The theme, of course, is the 1980’s.

These were a few of my favorite things.

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