November 2, 2015 Skype with my studio advisor, Andrew Cooks. The call focused on issues of materiality, modularity and scale I am currently exploring. Andrew recommended the Artists Documentation Program archive of converastions between artists and conservators. I have watched Terry Winters’ conversation with Carol Mancusi-Ungaro as well as Frank Stella’s conversation with Elizabeth Lunning and Brad Epley. Having recently revived the use of oil based paints and home-mixed medium in my painting practice I first viewed the conversation with Mr. Winters, whose use of these has been influential to me since the late 1980s. In contrast, and as preparation for my upcoming visit to the Whitney Museum of American Art’s current retrospective of his paintings, I next viewed the conversation with Frank Stella. To say the least the differences were thought provoking as I continue searching for an equilibrium between the material and the conceptual in my own work.