I talk a lot about the importance of reflecting back on what you've done in the past. Sometimes we get led away from what we started doing...and we learn, but if we keep looking back we can find that which got us started and believe me that can really invigorate you. When we're young we have so much hunger...thats the greatest thing. When we get older and develop more skills, have more responsibilities to pay bills etc... we sometimes forget that hunger. Recently we began chatting about a friends 80th birthday coming up next year. I suggested we all make a piece to give him. What I didn't realize is this little statement would lead me to really looking back at the work I was doing as a student learning from this friend, Enrico Pinardi, and getting pretty excited about making new work using some similar imagery(in fact using some of the very same objects). And I'm doing these as homages to my friend in hopes that this will lead me to even newer work. Its fun, I'm not drawing or painting as I did back then, but I am constructing these images in much the same way and who knows, maybe these will become paintings before all is said and done. Image constructed in photoshop using some photographs and invented shapes and colors and tones using the program. By Richard Sayer.