This is one of those works that I’ve resurrected, rebooted if you will. You may recognize it as the former St. Luke's Summer, the title a nod to the period in the fall when Summer weather returns. I had removed it from the website a while back because I felt it didn’t quite work compositionally and conceptually. I can’t always identify exactly what isn’t right, because if I could I would probably have realized it while I was painting it, but not for certain. I’m sure we all have been totally satisfied with something, but reflect later and find things we’d like to change. This isn’t something I do on a whim. I often change pieces before I release them, but for some reason it feels like I’m breaking some rule if I do it after I’ve presented it to the world. I don’t think it’s true that artists are never satisfied, but in hindsight I think the eye becomes more objective, perhaps more critical when you’re no longer in ‘the heat of the creative moment. I also don’t think that once you’ve signed it and released it to the world that that moment severs yourself from it and locks it in stone. Plays are often tweaked and rewritten after they’ve opened.

On the 2 previous ‘reboots’ I’ve done, I did not change their titles. However, the concept of that brief return of Summer after cool autumn weather being metaphor for the emotions that can surround returning home feels stronger with resurrection as part of the title and also, now reflect to story of the paintings return as well.