The title of this blog refers to the title of a drawing class I took with Richard Olsen in 1997. I remember Olsen's two terms relating to his idea of the drawing process as connecting the internal and the past with expressive tools, personal imagery and art materials. Our activities were driven by an inner, evolving scheme, and the results were calculations (these calculations may also be called art... it never worried Ole.) We talked during that class in small groups, we questioned our pasts, and looked to connect our 'selves' to our art activities. I'm glad to think back to those times as I paint today. I'm working with surfaces in mind as I paint now, I improvise my paintings as I go, and I love the thickness and sheen of my paint, I think about scale and edges, and often about colour. Almost all of these paintings are oil on canvas, plus a few are oil on masonite panel.