^{Recycling Used Paintings}In troubled times, my girlfriend said “at least you’re not as bad off as Emiily Carr, the poor thing had nothing but cardboard to paint on”. It was a Eureka moment. A large canvas costs real money and storage space, but the bike store and furniture store put out the right size cardboard. Circumstance is the mother of semiotic statements; cardboard has street credibility, Cardboard rebels, and rebellion against tradition is a postmodern credo. The process described suggest that in hard times, following lines of least resistance is a creative process.