Late October 2019, evacuated (along with the rest of my town) in advance of an oncoming firestorm, holed up in a friend’s home in the next county, sleeping/living in their kitchen for the duration.

On their bare wooden table, a banana (and I was happy to have that) but what to do, hunkered down while fires ravaged the communities all around us?

Make art. Here is the result, perhaps made more interesting by knowing the story behind it.