What you see..

...is not necessarily what you get. For example: I saw an on-screen version of Amazon's Kindle and like it and, perhaps sad to say, the idea of it. Or the practicality of it: just not enough room for that many more books in my modest garret. I ordered it and it was not what I saw (even given that what I saw was on screen). It was smaller than I thought, and that was a good thing. But I never really paid attention to the keyboard at the bottom that, sometimes, can be frustrating, especially if you hit the keys inadvertantly.

When it comes to painting what you see is rarely what you get. I had just completed a painting (see Incarceration) a while back, about a month, and it had this odd diagonal effect. A friend said: "I like the way you conveyed the rain." Only--I meant the image to have a steel bar, enclosed look.

But that's what's so great about, and the point of, abstract art. It's what it is to whomever is looking, and it's interpretations, like summer clouds, are virtually limitless...