Because this 12-foot wide painting resides in my living room, I always look at it. It's a work that precurses my transition to quiltmaking with its emphasis on patterning. Eventually the checkered "bush" suggested patchwork which, decades later, I made into an actual quilt. I also thought of the studies that Jasper Johns did in prints of earlier paintings. Perhaps a way of reconsidering or a cannibalism of one's own work.
