This is a painting I made during my artist residency at the Studios at MASS MoCA in December of 2019. I was intentionally referencing a painting I had made earlier in the year, "So Actually That Is Cool," which I had shown several times already and was one of the first paintings in what would go on to become my Pattern and Abstraction series.

It's not an exact copy by any means. The orientation is landscape instead of portrait, and it is larger. The color scheme is similar, but not exactly the same (more yellow, less turquoise). The composition in this one is also more symmetric. "So Actually That Is Cool" kind of zig-zags down the canvas while here the composition is sort of an oval inside a rectangle (trust me). It kind of worked. It's a bit more polished, which is both good and bad. It's still got that vibrancy. And this one, too, has gone one to be in several shows.