"inner lake" borrowed from the poem That Rat's Death by Eileen Myles

The stain is representative of experience, history, permanence. An accumulation of thirty stains was made over a span of about three months from ritually pouring watered down paint onto the same canvas. Each pour, and subsequent stain, represents a year of the artist's life, and was mixed using the same volume of  paint and water and the same pigments, with slight variations in the proportions of each color. Every pour, the canvas was rotated 90 degrees. Every seven layers poured, the canvas surface was sanded, representing the idea that every seven years humans experience cellular regeneration. This disruption in the layers is a way of questioning the permanence of the accumulation – what sticks? What are we made up of?