kenojuak described her work thusly in 1980: i just take these things out of my thoughts and out of my imagination, and i don't really give any weight to the idea of its being an image of something... i am just concentrating on placing it down on paper in a way that is pleasing to my own eye, whether it has anything to do with subjective reality or not. and that is how i have always tried to make my images, and that is still how i do it, and i haven't really thought about it any other way than that. that is just my style, and is the way i started and the way i am today.