This print was created after much frustration trying to create more complex prints with multiple colors. It was a breath of fresh air to just do one color and not have to cut out a paper stencil. As is the case with all of the prints I created while doing my artist's residency on Monhegan Island, Maine, this print was influenced, in part, by my experiences there. In this case it was a curious combination of a previous motif that I had often worked into my imagery; outdoor clothing and gear appropriated from a camping catalog, and seeing a person walk by my studio windows several times, in a high tech wet suit. The clothing motif is a favorite of mine for two reasons: I like the way the clothes are void of humans yet posed as if there are people wearing them and I like how, in this particular catalog I use, they're depicted as drawings with all of the stitches and wrinkles delicately rendered. The rant or content of the text is my own. It is something that I've been thinking about, but have yet to express in any way. This idea of hand drawing text that "expounds" in this way is part of a series of gouaches on paper that I've called Manifestos. Each one begins with a charged word which, despite my disregard for accuracy in building my thesis, I was finding, reflecting upon and speaking about in a way that might hold a certain truth-like quality and that anyone who might read it might experience a variety of feelings from enlightenment to unease to humor to outright incredulity, around otherwise socially charged subjects.