Even when I can make up my mind to work on one definite picture, I make false moves, which have to be eliminated—So it was with the “August Sun and Spider-web tree” —I want a sun that is hot blazing, all things on a parched earth—But what I create is a sun that turns out to look like a rosette of some sort—which means that much experimenting and research must be done before I achieve my aim—
Charles Burchfield, August 20, 1964