Mountain and Molehill, 22" x 28", oil and acrylic on paper, 1985. Artist's collection.

It has been 15 years since I painted this piece and I still get a chuckle from it. It derives, of course, from the expression, "making mountains out of molehills". This composition is a good example of how I was viewing the metaphorical capacity for these plotted points on a grid to carry a great deal of symbolic meaning. Their individual orientation and implicit interrelation conjures an associative poetic scenario which creates narrative meaning without literally illustrating the narrative of the piece. Plotting coordinates on a grid is a way of prioritizing information within the parameters of a logical theory. If the elements of this exercise in prioritizing information become metaphors, or forms of a poetic nature, then this system of logical order and prioritization can become a system of aesthetic and poetic order --a painting.