I’ve been at home with Sarah now for 43 days, but I have the saving grace of owning a free standing studio building that I can walk to 20 minutes away. Everyday I go. At this time I am not capable of originality or strategic thinking, instead I began work on a pile of small canvases that had been left behind by BFA students and I gathered them from the painting studio at NHIA. Thinking about the monks who, in the Dark Ages, retreated to islands off of the coasts of Ireland and Scotland to preserve western culture in illuminated manuscripts I am doing my own. Repetitive glowing works. As a further thought I am so bothered and restricted now by the accumulation of works I have, I work a lot and things pile up. It occurred to me to begin sending them out as gifts, I’ve sent out about 150 so far.