What if I draw a broken window and then cut it up and re-arrange it to create another level of brokenness?

This piece went through many changes before I considered it finished. It was the same panels of wood but was it the same painting?

One warm weekend in September 2020 I started putting paint down on eight 24 x 24 inch panels.

Whilst there is a modus operandi of iteration, destruction and re-creation common to all my pieces, each presents a unique set of challenges

If something anaesthetic dulls the senses, the aesthetic experience wakens and stimulates the senses - not pleasantly necessarily.

Overall, I was satisfied with the result but there was one part of the painting that my eye kept returning to. Something irritating.

It was my teacher's last day before retiring and I’d dashed off a drawing in minutes. On seeing my sorry effort he made me do it again.