There was always an adventure in creating narrative images on mulberry paper. Painting over an image would ruin the fragile, transparent look and feel; what was done could not be erased; making a mistake required rethinking the entire design. This process resonated with her goal of conveying this summer's changes. Usually, the images Caydance made on large sheets of mulberry paper (and then hung from wooden newspaper racks in a natural environment where light shone through layers of images) were planned in advance, but now she was drawing things that came to mind in unguarded moments. That when hung in a gallery unprotected by glass or frame, this work was ephemeral contributed, for her vision, to its meaning.

Friday night, while Griff was reviewing the training camp schedule, on the paper that stretched across her table, she had drawn his new Jeep Cherokee as it looked parked in front of the cottage on the Huygens campus. Now, from a slide in her slide viewer, she was recreating the fourth image on the music box, where from an old photo, the artist who had made this object had painted four soldiers playing cards. Perhaps because it echoed the male-dominated pre-season football camp into which Griff would soon disappear, this image had been occurring and reoccurring in her mind.