"Paintings should be started fast and finished slow.  The slower the finish the longer the creativity remains in the artist's mind and the less likely that the work will be declared done prematurely.  

 

The new Koger show includes the slowest and richest group of paintings in my career.  The most recent work in this show, a 6'x10' canvas, was put on the current canvas in 1992, with parts of unfinished paintings from as long ago as 1976 used as collage, and finished in 2020:  A forty-four year painting."