As an assignment for a painting class, our prompt was to make a piece or pieces that involved the concept of "extreme scale". Instead of approaching this prompt in the miniature, I wanted to create something extremely large. Using the world around me as my canvas, I could achieve a massive scale. I experimented with using light (a low power laser pointer and a high power flashlight) as my "paint" media and long exposure photographs to record the marks. This led me down an exploratory path to harness the full potential of this concept. I started my "paintings" on the side of a town water tank with my frame being approximately 30'x 60' (photo #5). I then took it indoors and explored the idea of tracing with the laser (photo #4). To create more unique figures, I incorporated long exposure photographs. By tracing large objects like trees or houses in the foreground, then including the astronomical scale of the star trails in the background, I achieved unique compositions of natural and man-made light.