This image really doesn’t show how it was done, because it seems obvious that preexisting visual material was manipulated using certain specific filters, of course, and only the over painting of certain elements points to having worked things out “by hand,” so to speak. Truth is, this image is constructed by hand from scratch, starting with black circles on empty white space, further developing this into figures and shapes, then layering dozens of times, putting in all the colors by hand into layer after layer. In this case too, there was a theme “Color” and precisely because of that I started in this colorless abstract manner, since I try to run from any “theme” that restricts my creativity. Having taken enough crazy detours I don’t mind reaching a thematic “goal”. The route was my goal then and concerning the result the only thing that counts, is, that it’s perfect and I love it. Seeing “Living Colors” this holds true, because for me it is a very special image of fish.