This is a large abstract painting in acrylic and Sharpie on heavy duty 12oz cotton duck canvas. I use high quality Golden Acrylic paints and have recently taken to use a type of Sharpie called "Sharpie Extreme" which claims to be fade resistant but I expect the Sharpie pigment will still fade a bit faster than the acrylic pigment (which should stay vibrant for hundreds of years, thousands if kept out of UV light). I also use various acrylic media to increase transparency, extend working life, achieve poured paint effects, and build texture.

The name of this painting is from a tech podcast I was listening to while editing the image files. Yes of course I edit the image files. The pictures don't come out of the camera as a perfectly cropped square. Other than the perfect square cropping, though, I really don't. But anyway I was listening to the nerdiest of all possible podcasts, "Mac Power Users" and yes everything about that is embarrassing. I like the name though, and it fits with this painting, which was the first I finished after my residency term at my MFA program at Lesley University this June. I had not been actually painting a lot, in getting ready for the residency period, and after I was feeling a little stuck. I think this painting is just a bit overworked. Or very overworked, but in a nice way. So the title fits. For me at least, the more I work on a painting the more problems arise. This became an exercise in fixing those problems. It's all the things I was able to fix.

This one incorporates collaged elements. I keep saying I am going to do collage, and I collect things, but they rarely make it into my paintings. In this case, it's those metallic bubble wrap bags that they put your cold foods in when you get your groceries delivered from Whole Foods when you are super fancy like we are over here and it is CoViD lockdown so you do not go to the store yourself but you pay another human being to put their life at risk instead of yours but you don't have to feel that bad about it because you always pay a tip that is a few dollars higher than the app suggests. I've got so many of those bags now.