This panel had been sitting in my studio for well over a year. I really liked the white mica discs floating with the teal drips, but I just could not see what the piece was to become. I decided it was time to alter the panel and see what happened. The result was this amazing green texture that made me so giddy, I knew it had to be a happy painting! It also made me think of fantasy worlds, so at first I considered a fairy. After sketching for a few, it was clear that the panel would become a dragon painting. I watched the movie, Puff the Magic Dragon, dozens of times when I was a child and have always had a fascination with dragons and mythical beasts. The fasciated daisy is an image I love to play with in my work. Something about that mutant flower just appeals to me. The title for the piece came from the French game, He loves me…he loves me not. In the original French version of the game, the petals do not simply indicate whether the object of the player's affection loves them, but to what extent: un peu or "a little", beaucoup or "a lot", passionnément or "passionately", à la folie or "to madness", or pas du tout or "not at all."