This one sits on top of an earlier painting — twice over. I'd think it was finished, live with it while working on other things, then come back and see it wasn't. Each return changed it radically. At 30 × 40 it's really everything I'd been working through in the smaller pieces, pushed out to scale: the drawing, the sgraffito, moving between large tools and small, exacting detail. Underneath it all is a portrait of a friend who will not be named.