Finally I am getting back to work on a bigger painting that I started last year. It’s some kids playing at a park where a giant naval mine has been left behind. The game the kids are playing is collecting and stacking UXOs (Unexploded Ordinance). I know it’s not going to fix anything, but these are the things in my head and if I don’t get them onto the canvas then they just sit in my head and stop me from being able to focus on being alive in the moment.

The South Bend Museum of Art is having its annual student and faculty show, and the deadline is Nov 1st. So I am hopeful that I can get this thing cleaned up and finished before that deadline. The deadline has lit a fire, and this will make it so I can get the thing off my large easel and out of my office so that I have room to work on some of the other things I’ve started and not been able to finish.