I encounter a painting mentor, and attempt to show him how I want to redevelop my landscape metaphor. I show him an exquisite drawing, partially colored with watercolor, that indicates my direction. There is a feeling that the symbolic/geometric/compositional element needs to be strengthened, or Nature becomes a mass of details. I am showing him how I used to paint, and how it does not satisfy me any more, and never did. This man seems older and wiser, dresses in warm, dark colors, and definitely understands what I’m saying. I feel he can teach me, and/or help me grapple with what I already know.