There are no hard rules, no dominating ego, rather the urgency of the moment after long involvement. Much depends on time and nature, much on choice, the final work on addition and display. There can be, have been all sorts of explanations, relevant, turgid, exacting and enlightening but in the end the work, all Dempster's work must reply on the integrity of the finished piece - and yet, these pieces will never be finished. This, above all else, is what you do not see when you see a Dempster. The innocent eye anticipates singularity, a work, a painting, a fresco immutable and perfect, fresh from the artist's hand, never changing, the same - and this is impossible. The medium changes, oils shift under light, shift over time and faster still gouache and water color, wood shrinks and dries, the surface now is not the surface then.