the structure is made out of laminating blocks of wood...in this case Poplar, but it could be any wood that doesn't ding too easily and isn't too heavy. the painting is done on 140 weight watercolor paper and then applied in sections to the wooden structure. I usually start with a shape that is interesting, either from a preliminary drawing or randomly putting together scraps of wood. I then find a scene (landscape, cityscape, non-objective patterns, or some combination I find visually appealing) i think works with the shape in some sense. A curve could lend itself to a panorama, or in this case a panorama that has atmospheric perspective and distance. The pattern shapes are generally rectilinear, partly out of the adhesion process of getting the image onto the wood, which leaves vertical seams. In this case, the blocks wrap around the curve, which makes the viewer deal with two types of space--that on the surface (patterns) and the illusion of space and distance. They are different for each piece, but there maybe something to the idea of constructing, tearing down, and re-building onto a surface that i find appealing. I tend to cover my works in paper, partly out of growing up working in an upholstery shop and I've always been a sucker for Bauhaus and Kurt Schwitters. The whole process is very collage-like, even the shape formation.