Couples — they highlight similarities and differences. Simple groupings like this add that ingredient in to the paintings helps push them a little further along. These paintings are 14 x 18 inches, the objects are roughly life-sized and I’m putting layers of details in to them. The cameras are in their second stage, and as I was working on them today I heard the voice that I always hear in the early stages of a painting — this is going to take much more concentration and time than you first thought.