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The Windows and Doors series begun in 2013 used rectangular underlying forms, but the execution was more expressive: dragged paint applied with various tools and brushes; edges lost and found; both visual and actual texture; layered surfaces only partially covering what lay underneath. The name Archaeology of Thought specifically references the building of one shape, idea, construction over another, so my focus has shifted to a different metaphor. The hard-edge elements, though, are in part tributes to Claude Howell, my early teacher, a painter from my home town whom I often think of as a mentor. Claude had an abstract period in the sixties, I think, but most of his work is stylized figurative – especially coastal scenes of the beach, fishermen, drying fishing nets, and later, beach houses in high-key color that often captured the bright light of a coastal summer. The houses were painted as hard-edged reductive geometrical shapes. Yet Claude always connected to something observed; observed and then imaginatively transformed......