"Parenting continued to influence my practice, specifically in the development of a series of ‘stroller-paintings’. Starting in 2009, as my young children fell asleep and napped most consistently on stroller walks, I began a series of ‘self-commissioned’ public artworks that were strategically positioned at two locations. Both locations were distances  from home that it took my children to fall asleep for morning naps in the stroller. One location was a stretch of abandoned roadway that had become the local DIY Skatepark. The other location was a multi-acre swath of disused  pavement, in several sections, along the Burlington waterfront. Using house-paint and a narrow paint-roller with extension handle, I composed road-marking-width line ‘drawings’ on the pavement, while my child napped a few feet away. The naptime duration  gave me 30-45 minutes of work time, a factor that created time-specific scale worked per excursion. Painted over an 8 year period, there was daily interaction of the public with the artwork . This was definitely one of my favorite projects and the mark-making process inspired a series of large-scale paintings on canvas. Regular video documentation of the process was also used for episodes of my public-access TV show.  The abandoned interstate site eventually stretched a quarter of a mile and the waterfront location covered several acres.