I have not had enough time for very much studio work this weekend.  I just got a little painting done.  I composed a preliminary bibliography for my thesis paper and did some reading and heavy thinking about the brief paper due in November.  This has helped me plan what to do next in my paintings.My paintings are about memory. In them I hope to evoke a sense of recurrence in the viewer that jogs memory.  I want my work about my memories to to elicit a deja vu experience in the viewer. I want this to lead to a sense of commonality. At first I thought that the very feminine images and colors that I am using now are eliminating half of the population.  Then I decided that for a very long time masculine terms and iconography have stood for all of humanity which has even been called "mankind" to include both men and women.  I am not necessarily coming from a feminist point of view, but I see no reason why feminine images may not be used to represent "mankind". No one else has to like the idea or even agree. I going forward with it.