One thing I've been experimenting with lately is creating decorative borders for some of my recent pieces. I'm not at all sure what I think of the notion yet, but I am making these pieces that become patterns and when you make them really small they look like old fabric patterns. They are very much a reminder of some of the hippie belts that I wore as a child in the 70's. This was my latest patterned piece that is the four main images that I then repeated about 20 to 25 times around the edge of one of my recent large pieces. made this one to replace one I made earlier that didn't have any direct meaning to me. This one, using my face and paint relates more to my current work and therefore seams to be more appropriate than one I made using a picture of a girl who isn't directly connected to me. Again, I'm not sure if its something that will work overall and become a motif, or if I'll just make these and they'll just be what they'll be. By Ric