I visited the Pike Place Market in Seattle, where I found my favorite colors in abundance. It was early Saturday morning in late March when the open-air market was like a refrigerator and the only source of heat was the light reflecting the warm colors. Originally, the florist was also in the view, an old Vietnamese lady wrapped in her fur-trimmed parka, but she was so small among the mass of flowers that her figure was almost grotesque. Visually, it's hard to make sense of a figure wearing a hooded parka in a field of tulips. Although I generally avoid painting flowers (as much as I love them), this image lent itself to my main theme of picturing warmth and connectedness with the help of colors and texture brushes. I worked with more than 30 layers before I collapsed them into just two--the painting and the knitted lines--so that I could mold the shapes to relate to each other. Potentially, this could be a giant print, up to 30'X40', and I mean feet, not inches. I picture it as a mural by Seattle's Pike Place Market.