Sunset Birdsong began as a 12” x 12” unfinished oil painting on copper mounted to a masonite board. I never could resolve the unfinished part, so I lopped the bottom 4”off and it lived in my studio for about a year. One day I realized that perhaps it should be part of something else. I had been experimenting with making product backdrops with Thai marbled paper and the colors of my painting we…