Below are some of the scraps of paper and junkmail that served as a starting point. Most of them didn't make it into the final painting.
Here is the canvas with just a few layers of paint and scratchiness. Some of the collage elements laid out but not yet attached, still deciding:
An alternate vision of the future:
Some more paint to make an ugly volcano that must end up un-visible... And look, it seems like a strange, dark cityscape is emerging from the dark purple under the orange scrap of paper at the left:
Close, but not exactly right... too much junk... remember, everything must go. I painted over most of the text that says "Final Days," but I think the finished piece (seen: here) still has the apocalyptic feeling I was hinting at, without being quite so literal. I was kinda sad to paint over the toes, though.
