Right before I left the art supply store with my tiny Ganesh pendant, the tsunami hit. A new word for our vocabulary, the constant onslaught of images. The one of a man on the beach watching, dumbstruck, as an enormous wave roared toward him, got me every time. What, do you suppose, he was thinking? This metallic painting, Pearlie, both Lee Bontecou and tsunami related, was done soon after while I was only working weekends at the Tribeca gallery and had time to paint again.