Possible answers include:
- After a squirrel-free childhood, I get them in abundance now. They get into my head. Literally.
- Blue and green pastels were all I could find … or all I was willing to get up for at the time. Wait … here's a chunk of purple down by my chair leg. And what's that down along the baseboard — some yellow! And some white! Gonna hafta get up for the black, though …
- To see if I could draw something from memory.
- Pastel in one hand, new textured paper in the other, it's what I thought of to draw.
- I don't know.
- Why not?
