Aurochs & Adages is an ongoing series concerned with nostalgia. What is the hopeless desire to redirect the present backward all about? Adages present a knowing face, wisdom, time-tested knowledge. They fascinate me for their lively engagement with language and they have a long history as subjects for art. Started in 2012 and continuing through 2015, I have worked on this series and revisited many of these paintings each summer for five weeks while teaching as a visiting artist at Skidmore College. The paintings are then stored, upstate, in a friend's attic for the year. In a very real sense, then, the work engages with the past and the dynamic calm of being allowed endless revision. And, while I'm astonished at efforts to revive Pleistocene mammals, this series is not meant to finger wag. If the shoe fits, there is nothing to judge (which presents another side of the project: making adages up).