So, it turned out that Ross did hate my assemblage/“painting/pita-glued to canvas” process and products that I dared to call paintings. For Ross, a painting was made of paint. He made a simple suggestion: use the pita bread as a tool and not as an object. That made all the difference.

I began to use the pita bread as a stencil — placing them on the flat canvas and then splattering, spraying and pouring paint around them. I diluted the paint with water and medium and used a sprayer or, like our ancestors in their caves, blew the paint on the canvas from a straw.

Adding dots made with the end of a brush and little starbursts (24″x24″)