“Barnett Newman’s Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue, created in 1966, was a challenge in response to Edward Albee’s play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Albee, in turn, was responding to the song Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf from a Walt Disney cartoon in the early 1930s. While fear is a constant when approaching new concepts in art, I regularly confront Newman’s challenge when entering a new studio space. To familiarize myself with a new environment, I often step outside of my current series to create a related series of paintings using red, yellow, blue, and black. This practice helps alleviate any fears about the new space and allows me to get into the painting groove more effectively.