I have always had a thinly veiled love of painting leaves, flowers, and natural landscapes, but this year I began to draw my own ideal plants in pots under the title "Ideal Plants. A painting is a "self-portrait," whatever the motif. Do I think of myself as a plant "in a pot"? Yes, I am trying to somehow dissipate in the midst of being stuffed down. Certainly, I resemble myself, we resemble ourselves.