Mary pointed me to another great online tool, Flame. I quickly began painting and writing, noticing instantly the flame-like quality of the trailing strokes—transparent, iridescent shapes materializing on the dark canvas, like diaphanous veils. In a sense, completely the opposite of flames that consume and destroy matter, these drifting forms grow and consume but space. I remember when, as a child, I would play for hours in my lab/studio, dropping coloured water from an eyedropper into test-tube like containers filled with clear water, admiring the dancing coloured streaks as the liquid veils sank to the bottom, eventually dissolving.
