My pictures usually begin with some notes in my sketchbook, which I always take notes in, but in which I almost never make sketches. Sometimes I have a clear image in my mind of what I want to make, but I have no idea what that image means. Other times I have the title of the picture scribbled on a piece of paper, but no idea how I want it to look. In the case of the image being presented today, I had a clear idea of how I wanted it to look, but I had no idea if it had any intellectual depth. Whenever I come across these situations, I always err on the side of creation, and make the picture anyway. I assume that if the picture looks interesting enough, the meaning will float up from my subconscious through the process of creation.
