During the pandemic I relinquished my gigantic painting studio, which I called "The Cloud". This meant I could no longer work on fifteen-foot canvases. Instead, I reduced the scale and switched to the format of the disk. Not long after I wrote the following: Warm Up Work and Repurposed Paper Long ago I picked up a helpful hint that I have followed my whole life. It may have come from Betty Crocker or Ask Heloise or possibly Andy Warhol. It applies to using a new cookie sheet or painting in a new studio: Throw the first batch away. Trust me, I do this when I make a batch of waffles or pancakes. It follows the aromatic smoke of the smudge stick in a studio before I begin new work. This hopefully makes it clear to you why I chose to repurpose a stack of circular recording chart paper instead of burning through perfectly good and labor intensively made handmade paper. Painting is not making cookies or waffles. However, working in a studio where I have either ...