I'm on a painting quest. This is number 1 of an unfolding series with no over riding criteria or determining factors, except to let the intimate, private and personal act of painting take place in the public realm in the form of a v-log. Inspiration can come from anywhere. In this case, I was struck by the feeling of poetry and some degree of truth when I heard Julian Schnabel state "anxiety is the dizziness of freedom," a phrase attributed to the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard.