I first painted, signed, and exhibited this Anemone in 2018, before the world changed. The original was smooth, mostly light purples, a plain background where the only dimension came from shifts in value. It hung on my studio wall for years until, post-COVID, once I’d started bringing abstraction inspired by NASA’s daily images into my work, I climbed a ladder, took it down off the wall, and put it back on the easel, wanting to give it real depth and dimensionality. Reworking it gave me the boost I needed, a way to express the renewal I was feeling. It was also a bigger step than it might sound, breaking through the idea that a painting, once finished, has to stay finished. Life goes on and life changes.