I started this project (my first animation) in 2014 and completed the third segment in July of 2015, on a residency in a beautiful little village in Burgundy, France, Noyer sur Serein. I linked the three segments together as The Search. The sound of buzzing bees was recorded in Noyer by holding a mic up to grapevines. The animation was done from drawings scanned into Photoshop and then manipulated in Flash. The original drawings were done out of a spirit of desolation, but the animation inverted that for me. I've wanted to do animation for a long time. After drawing and painting for decades, I was compelled to breathe new life into my work. I've also loved cartoons my whole life. Bugs Bunny, Tinkerbell, and Mehitabell the cat were some of my first loves and role models. Some of the sounds are from freesound.org. See below for sound attribution from freesound.