I am a collector of fragments. The most beautiful fragments are found on the 7 train in Queens, one of the most diverse counties in the US. Mustaches, eye glasses, textile patterns, video game characters, signs seen from the window, are all ripe for the picking. By layering, repeating, and mirroring these shapes, a portrait of the shared experience of a train car, a subway stop or a neighborhood starts to emerge. The overlapping images flatten out on the picture plane similar to the surface of an illuminated manuscript, a mandala or an Indian miniature painting. The crowd portraits shown here have progressed in format from a kind of taxonomy to totems to increasingly abstract, dream-like pools. The work seeks to capture the spirit of people who come together in passing by cataloging fleeting and valuable fragments.