This is a painting from June 2012, when I lived in a little house off Burnet Road in Austin, Texas. I loved that little house; it was the first place I painted where there was soft daylight to work in. Things could go awry, but if I was able to sit at the table in the quiet light flowing through the windows, bruises and obstacles of the day would break down in the weight of the brush, the texture of the paint, the flow of color, the unpredictable effects of water.