Title: "Colors," 1997. Silkscreen, signed, 33.25h x 19w in. edition 16/26. Produced at Dennis O’Neil’s Silkscreen Print Studio in Alexandria, Virginia. Photo of Artist with Tim Hunt 2016 and of actual sculpture (notincluded). Translation: I remember the first time I opened a box of water colors. A big one. In it, on white semi-gloss the colors glowed with a matte roughness, couldn't possibly violate the precise game of the marked windows, tormenting them with a brush. The only possibility was observing. Also possible was licking a finger, touching at the edge, and sniffing. And so, the light yellow smelled of something bitter, leavinga brassy taste in the mouth. Ochre smelled of summer's hot dust, suddenly flattened by rain. Once, much later as an adult, I was washing the floor in the country and spilled water on the hot stove. My head spun