Painting after midnight

Painting this work for the last few weeks has been like an addiction. I come up to my studio and can't get out without painting at least a few marks on this canvas.That turns in to an obsessive trip using wax and oils to cloud and obscure, then fresh marks added to later be hidden or buried under fresh layers of medium.
This painting came from an experiment with red. Seeing if one could draw the eye away from the most optically desired color and off to a busy world of marks and circles. It is doable.
The painting is not done but it is close.
Hiding elements under wax and oil, then retelling the tale, again and again, make the work endlessly changing, endlesly deep, and as my friend Bill Seibert says, "hiding what you say makes people want to ask more questions"