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Reverie, daydreaming. Late summer afternoons in the garden are perfect for that. Such a gift, the long unwinding of thoughts and letting imagination roam free. Has reverie has become a lost art? It is easier than ever to fill empty time with busyness and distractions. If those minutes were allowed to unwind where might they take us? Daydreams are a way to tap in to creativity, an oblique approach to solving problems and decision making. Often this is how I resolve a tricky passage or find an elusive title.

I designed the composition in this painting to be a complicated tangle of petals, leaves and circles punctuated by dappled light. There are quite a few tricky passages, and an imprudent number of circles. That was my intent: more of everything tangled up in a place of lingering and reverie.