This painting Foray is built upon a previous layer, a self portrait sourced from the imagination 29 years before. That completed artwork was titled Portrait of a Soul. 

How many layers of meaning come out of the act of intentionally forming a new image from something created in the past?

I am reminded me of the moment at the end of the story of the Falling People, where we are tasked with creating a new future and invited to fall through it.