Obsession is based on a recorded performance of Gino Paoli's Il Cielo in una Stanza by Italian vocalist Mina Mazzini.

Work on Obsession began in 2010, and was completed in nine months. I construe Obsession as a single work — a mega-painting on 18 panels.

Obsession is about watching, and fixation, and about painting, as much as it is about a celebrated person's peak performance.

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