This image started off as a morning sketch using imagery found in my old encyclopedia set. It's Christopher Columbus and I originally sketched him in outer space, with a space station in the background! As I turned to begin making this into a print, using drawing fluid directly on the screen, I decided to make him under water, copying from another illustration in an encyclopedia, the bubbles rising from a figure in an old fashioned diving suit. I then recalled a conversation with Angela, a lobster woman who came by my open studio and relayed a description of what some scuba diving friends of hers often see on the bottom of the sea around Monhegan...not too pretty! The composition of this screen was now beginning to come together, but my Horror Vacui was kicking in and I needed something in the upper left. A long walk to lobster cove and back allowed me to clear out the cobwebs, thinking about the weight of time and the 1000 year pyramid weight was born!