“It doesn’t start with any grand idea for me. When I am making a painting, it comes from the most incidental of events,” Silverman said. Lately he has been retrieving some of his previous paintings and reworking them to make them better and stronger. He took one down from the rack to show a boy standing ankle-deep in water. “We all go swimming. What does swimming mean—fun and relaxation, splashing in the water? I picked out a kid who was not really swimming. He’s hesitant going into the pond seemingly trying to investigate something. He doesn’t know what is there. And then the painting became about a kid growing up, about discovery, and water became the unknown,” Silverman said. Like the kid he depicted, he continues to investigate. “I am still trying to do something that is not yet achieved, though I’m unsure what that something is,” he said. His tone of voice exuded kindness in tandem with his shimmering eyes. (http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2211360-the-spark-and-wisdom-of-artist-burton-silverman/)