Fire Leaf started as a very strange dream. It wasn't an action dream like most are; absolutely nothing happened! It was just an image of a kind of palm leaf floating in golden space, just sort of hanging there. I remember thinking, "What does this mean?" The dream continued for a while and nothing happened. When I woke up the next morning, the image of the leaf was vivid in my mind. What did it mean? I decided to try to paint it to see if something would evolve. Try as I might, nothing happened; I struggled for days! Then someone suggested that I approach it as a painting rather than a dream. This is what evolved, and is one of my favorite paintings.