Dated in 1995, but probably I painted this over 5 years or more prior that. It was my habit in those years to start paintings and leave them incomplete. It’s funny how leaving something in complete preserves it’s potential but completing it seals it’s fate. As it happened the delay in time allowed me to solve a compositional problem, and interestingly the sketches I made attempting to solve that problem are still stuck to the back of the work.