This panel has been going now for years. It began as a simple piece of birch, gessoed with acrylic, and became a sequel to another painting of the same size that depicted a fantastical take on a public execution extrapolated from the days in England when church and state together pulled people apart. It then became an imagined glimpse into an otherworldly perspective on such terrors. The panel went dormant until I needed something on which to paint another story. And now having scraped maybe 70% of that painting away, I am left with this pastel palette palimpsest image.