Color can be very intimidating, and besides some guache, I had avoided it, then I discovered commercial silk-screened colors. There were two main brands at the time, Coloraid and Chromarama, both systems sold books of their entire library of colors, and well as larger sheets. It was near the end, however, of this industry, and found myself scavenging to find the last color books and sheets. Like the pencil drawings of subtle graphite gradations, I challenged myself to force these industrial flat sheets to create subtle ombres of color. The work was highly labor-intensive and time-consuming. While working on these, I also experimented with tiling pieces of Mylar laminated to paper.

In 1995, I was honored to receive a Louis Comfort Tiffany grant. A collage from this series was featured in the catalog.