Today I was flattening and tearing up boxes for recycling.  Being too lazy to move from my seat in the sun to go and find a Stanley knife to help carve up some of the larger sections I just set to with my hands.

Then I noticed the multiple layers of alternating flat and corrugated cardboard that made up one of the boxes.

A stretch for some people I’m sure, but the layers made me think of mountains – linocut mountains.

Interesting, but I’m not working on mountains currently, I’m working on a wine and cheese still-life – which isn’t coming together as I’d hoped – but I have a new idea now.  This has unblocked a sticking point I’ve been thinking about.

So back to my planning, and evolving the concept.