This is a lyric from the Love and Rockets song, Mirror People, a song I have loved for (ahem) decades. They reference zen philosophy a lot in their music which I appreciate. The piece below was somewhat inspired by this song.

The background is encaustic medium tinted with Naples Yellow. The letter have been spray painted on using a stencil. The idea was to carve the letters out with a sharp tool and then rub the indentations with oil paint as one would do with an etching plate. However, having got to this point in the plan, I’m thinking, maybe this done.

I like how it looks but I kind of feel like I didn’t do enough work on it. Process has always been important to me.