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work might perceive such an exhibition as favoring specific subject matter or attracting an audience that does, and decide not to spend the money and effort to enter, thereby increasing the odds the show will continue to be that way. It’s a hard loop to shake. The Woodmere Annuals' often broad themes draw a wide range of interpretations and media, which beget more. Work isn’t required to be for sale, so you get to see some works the artists aren’t ready to part with. The museum also can accommodate large paintings. There are fewer limitations than most shows, resulting in an exhibition that reveals a breadth of creativity.

It is a real drag to watch the public walk past my work at a show, but I don’t pay attention to all the pieces either. Art must engage on its own merit, and I can’t expect someone’s consideration just because I put time into it. If I want someone to stop and look at my work, it must be compelling. I was all over the map considering the migration theme. I initially focused on people—people from diverse cultures, different ages, dissimilar ethnicities. I imagined a group portrait of extreme subjects with a subtle commonality, but that smelled of an ad for a corporation trying to polish its image. Everything I came up with seemed formulaic or cliché, so I cautiously slid over to the animal kingdom. I wasn’t going to paint a chevron of geese.

My way of working toward a theme is to purposely expose myself to a lot of related ideas, definitions, and images until something sparks my interest. I learn a lot in the process. A list of migratory animals I searched included wildebeests, which I knew migrated, and zebras, which I didn’t. I was surprised to discover the two did it together. I was also taken by the stripe patterns.

Now I was thinking zebras, but I still had all those people-thoughts wandering around in my head. My default work mode is the daydream. It was as if I was a movie director and all the animals and people were in my office standing around my desk saying, “What do you want us to do?” I began with what they normally do. It turned out proximity was enough. I could just as easily put the zebras in the diner and the people charging down the street, but what I had was already plenty to think about. I prefer accessible to abstruse.

I scribbled a thumbnail drawing, then refined it on the 24x32” panel in the studio. The diner interior was addressed first to create the setting for what would happen outside the windows. The individual human figures were all invented using imagined poses describing business as usual. Outside, I wanted the force of nature. Movement. Urgency. That was a lot of fun. You don’t paint zebras; you paint stripes.

Elements appeared as I worked. I added a ceiling fan to balance the composition. I wanted to do donuts in a cake dome for years, and here was my chance. I went back and forth about putting a name on the diner window. That would locate the glass, but words don’t sit comfortably in paintings; they use a different part of the brain. It’s okay to have something that looks like words, but as soon as they say something it interrupts the free flow of imagination. Words, even presented backward, are like a cannon in a symphony; best discharged at the precise place in the music, not too loud, and only if absolutely necessary. The sense of isolation in the diner gave me the title: Dayhawks. Thank you, Ed.

Art is a response, and the best kind leads both the maker and the viewer to a new place. That’s where the power lies in art and why museums, like the Woodmere, are so important. n