a year or so ago --maybe closer to two now I had a friend make me a print of a new piece that I wanted to enter into the Erie Art Show. She had just gotten a new printer at work was learning how to use it--she offered to help me make this pretty large print. In the testing process she learned several things about the paper and inks and showed me the several attempts she made--some she found had wet inks that would smear. She asked if I wanted these--YES! this is my sorta thing. I get excited by things that happen unplanned and try to make something more out of it. So I smeared a little more and then they became like many other things, a stack under a stack under a stack. Last week I was cleaning up some stacks and decided to re-photograph some old drawing and painting and some of these stacks of stuff. My plan was to have documentation, but not keep everything--time to rid myself of some stacks! Stuff like this though influences the creative process so much if you aware of it and more importantly if you allow it to happen and take notice that maybe sub-consciously these things happen on purpose. I am completely unsure if these little prints--or the photographs I made last week of them will ever amount to anything solid in my work, but I feel its important that I be aware of what these things do to my creative processes. Maybe they will be an innovation or lead to an innovation that becomes very important to my work. Photograph of a print made by Missy Hindle of one of my works(detail). Original piece by Richard Sayer.