When I’ve felt stumped or blocked I’ve taken up new media, particularly when I was younger. I started making paintings when I was a teen, continuing into my twenties. I dead-ended at my immaturity and lack of knowledge with the medium. For personal and simple survival (teaching, day job) reasons I fell in love with photography and its apparatus. The photograph gave me a ready made image requiring less thought and planning than drawing and painting. It was right for me at the time, too, because I started to work with color photography. It wasn’t a “thing” then in the perception of the photo as fine art. However, it did fit with what I did as a painter, perceiving myself a good colorist. I still occasionally jump sideways to another medium – like intalglio a few years ago, when I bought a press. I’m preparing to return to it, soon.