This was reaching back to a watercolor style I painted with in my teen. This is wet-on-wet oil and playing with the colors and blending the lines and colors into forms was a blast. I held in mind a desert paintingI could remember but no longer have. The original was a giant butterfly sweeping up and across a cliff in the desert. This lost the butterfly, kept the trappings of desert and then went where it needed to.
— spence