My work continues on some new “records” for my Sun Records project, painted wood “vinyl” records that include words. I like to think we can put on the music that lights us up any time we want. We get to choose the messages we want to listen to. That’s the idea behind these. The execution is, for me, so much slower than the idea. It takes experimentation and usually involves a bit of failure too.

Right now, I’m doing a series of 45 rpm’s, smaller in scale, of course, than the original 33’s. For the label, I’m doing portraits of the artists and the smaller scale makes some things tricky. Too much color and detail detracts from the main point—the words. So I’ve been working to mute them a bit. But, day by day, I am getting closer.