Although I took a formal approach, the RGMBW series is first and foremost an emotional response to moving to New York. It is almost a romantic group of works. Shortly after moving, I got a day job as a software trainer in midtown Manhattan. I had to commute everyday to Grand Central Station, and it was the mass movements of individuals, the flows of people that really inspired the first RGBMW paintings. I used all-over, grid-based patterns opting for a very strict five color scheme that I lifted from a photo in a fashion magazine. I kept the works very neat and task-oriented as a stabilizing, almost spiritual approach. I tried to make them as close to computer-made as I could, in part as a reflection of my observation of the relationship between humans and computers. In this attempt to be computer-like, the most interesting thing is the tension between the perfection/imperfection of the human hand.