Read more: https://kathleen-obrien.com/backstories/ Backstory: A favored acrylic layered painting with robin egg blues and copper, parts of a red summer flower gone wrong, a nice celery green from a commissioned collage on Spanish Capellades Abaca. In 1979 my neighbor printed DaVinci’s notebook, before I knew anything about scanning or printing. Many of my early collages had similar strips. The shining sphere was the only part of a watercolor I liked. The vibrant green strip is from “Side by Side”, 2003.