I speak with paint. My most recent interest is sound, rhythm and words as the subject for a painting. My slides include work painted while repeatedly listening to certain songs. The songs all were chosen for their poetic lyrics, sound, and rhythm and because parts of the lyrics have stayed with me in some cases as far back as grade school. A tune that gets stuck in your head is called an earwig or earworm and thus is the series title. I am an artist who draws and paints but that does not tell the whole story. I am a writer of prose and poetry and I am beginning to incorporate this with visual art.