I think one of the things that has helped me in the world of making pictures is that I'm really not afraid to experiment and try things. If I see something and learn how to do it - I go for it. When its process oriented I try and try and when it begins to seem like it has something I then try to figure out what I can do with it. And even after I work with a style for awhile I'm not afraid to take it somewhere else and try to incorporate other ideas into the process. Believe me I get more failures than I do successes. But the failures, boy thats where the learning really takes place. Last week I got distracted from doing some work and combined two pictures I hadn't thought of combining before I did. It was similar to the one above and its a few days back in the featured pictures. Tonight I was wanting to go to bed(about 2 hours ago), but was itchn' to make something new. I called up last weeks picture and a few others that I've done in between bits of work(sometimes this stuff I do in between work acts sort of like taking a deep breath) and then rifled through some other pictures of Risa and the next thing I knew I had another image coming together. I have three in this series and a forth that is loosely based on this theme as well, all with Risa. I'm not sure what I'll be doing with them, but they are really letting me take those deep breaths and energizing me. I feel another body of work coming on and these might be the beginning sketches. At least they are working out an idea that I feel needs to be bigger. Photographic manipulation by Richard Sayer