I stretched these canvases myself – with a heavyweight canvas.  I added drink coasters for texture then gesso-ed them and coated them with a Martha Stewart interior latex paint called Milk White.  Borders and straight lines, as well as a cat stencil ( the same one I used in the paper collages) completed the compositions.  Oil paint and collage materials completed the paintings.

I love their airy quality.  Oh, and my friend Syracuse artist Michael Moody gave me a bundle of old Scrabble pieces and I configured the text only from those letters.  I only had about three As and an H left over, I think!  That was fun because it made using game pieces part of the game and yet I feel that each painting has a strong element of self-portrait to them, as though the words were meant to be discovered.  They really represent my personal conflicts as I approached the new millennium.   I framed them with pine slats nailed to the sides, gallery style.