I painted all of the even numbered hours first, then filled in the odd hours. This ensured a stylistic continuity, because this project took six years to paint. The job of the odd hours was to connect all of the images, and to help pull the whole into a (somewhat) coherent narrative. This painting was finished late in the series, and the central part of these notes deals with the objects found in many of the other hours. I envisioned all of these objects caught in a whirlwind, but tamed the desire to depict that in such a literal fashion. The central metaphor of the piece was a depiction of that period between wakefulness and sleep, a very creative time, when solutions to problems are often found, and images rise into consciousness. The gridded, formal interior of wakefulness gives way to to the exterior creative maelstrom of the dream world.