I am a painter, a word that was synonymous with artist when I was young. I paint paintings with paint and have in an art world spinning out of orbit into a space of endless dazzling possibilities, limited my choices, set limitations to abide by. Rules, harsh rules that make “making” more difficult yet more intense, rules that keep me from empty repetition, from cranking out a product mindlessly as on an assembly line. Rules that lead to discovery. Limitations that lead to invention. Vera Klement