This piece happened by accident, when I rested some collage elements on an existing, completed oil sketch. They seemed to belong together, and so the evolution began. I added more elements, most of them vintage, with the initial idea of "when Monopoly was a game." But, as I kept working, I began including more childhood and game elements. The game card to the left is from a vintage bingo-style game. The pages towards the bottom are from an antique book about the Three Musketeers, and an 18th-century hellfire-and-brimstone text. The photo of the girl is from a vintage photo album. I copied her image in black and white, and then made a color photocopy of her dress and arms. To the left of her, Jane (from the "Dick and Jane" reader series) is putting on rollerskates. The oil sketch beneath the collage was painted at sunrise near a pond in George Bush Park, in Houston, Texas. The Monopoly card that I chose was "Go Back 3 Spaces," because--reflecting on the elements in this collage--I'd like to turn the clock back to a simpler time, when the rules were clearer and life was just a little less serious.