No, 30: Onto a Glass Darkly. In August of 2015, he began working on sheets of glass, making dark subaqueous images of undersea creatures. He felt like Captain Nemo, peering out of the fly's-eye windows of the Nautilus.

No. 29: Over-Run. He hadn't sold a painting for six weeks and, being depressed, he decided to run over himself with his own car. Because he was two-dimensional, it didn't hurt him much.

No. 28: Tomato Cut-Up. Unsatisfied with his recent Tomato Still Life (see Tabletop Studio #23), he sliced the picture into sections and then rearranged them on his easel. These new juxtapositions excited him as greatly as the earlier tomato painting had bored him.

No. 27: Big Gilles. The subjects in art history were important to him, and he looked up to them as if they were real people. He especially admired Watteau's enigmatic pierrot, Gilles--who was a presence in everything he thought and felt.