In 2021,  the impulse to move  images off of the canvas appeared.  I had no idea how this would happen.  Over the many years, I’d occasionally experimented with building up areas of the canvas or paper with various substances and textiles.  I loved the new textures that this brought about.  In 2023, another artist, Harvey Rayner, commissioned three paintings in which he asked me to respond to a sculpture he’d acquired from another artist.  The lines of the sculpture were strong and clear and I wanted to respond in kind.  The idea of ‘drawing’ with a thick rope occurred.  As I lay the rope on the canvas and watched it coil off of the surface, I finally saw how the paintings could begin to rise off.  I began to build structures onto the canvas using rope, canvas, and burlap.  As the work was formed,  I continued to respond with paint adding  color, line and shapes. The images grew into rich  three dimensional forms and I’ve now  stepped into the rich and inexhaustible world of sculpture.