The subjects of images often don't present themselves right away. For me, I try to doodle with as little concious control as possible. I just doodle. Then, as I work on the final version of a piece, I find that it get's me thinking in certain ways about the image and what I am experiencing. This pic is called "It hit me like an act of God." I borrowed it from a song lyric in an Andrew Bird song. It got me thinking about the power of seemingly ordinary things can be. Stuff we consider benign or mundane. I didn't say trivial, just common. Things like love, a home, a child... Stuff we all know but maybe hadn't thought about much. Then I start to connect the "feelings" of a picture with my own experience at that time. I want viewers to be able to see their own things in the images but sometimes, I think, "man, that's too obvious." Obvious or not, it is what it is. Sorry the scan is not better.
