This work was in part inspired by a desire to simplify the process of making work presentable for exhibition. I have always done my own framing and had grown tired of the monumental effort required to mat and frame my work before a show. I began toying with the idea of painting on ready-made “display armatures” (as began calling them). This impetus provided me with an opportunity to utilize skills developed over a number of undergraduate sculpture classes. The time seemed ripe to look for a way to combine painting with 3-D form.