Last year the Toronto Star ran a series called The Seven Deadly Sins, dealing with universal struggles. Before I begin a new series, I mentally cook a stew of my emotions. The first painting of my Deadly Sins series happened by serendipity. I was cleaning my palette from Garri's class, and I did what I often do. I took my palate paper and smacked the remaining paint onto a large piece of canvas. And then I folded the canvas in half to see what happened almost like a Rorschach test. And I liked what I saw. I just began to write at the top of the canvas SEVEN DEADLY SINS and interspersed among all the blobs of paint, I wrote in the sins: vanity, envy, greed, lust, gluttony, sloth and wrath. Then I just began to paint little shapes at random. And so that became my entrée into this series.