Because sometimes making simple strokes of color can temporarily blot out a lot of mental and informational noise. And while making these, the idea of constant flux presented itself because you can think, in any moment, of any point on the spectrum of, “This is nice,” to “This is awful,” and by the time your mind has traveled from the subject to the predicate adjective of either of those pretending sentences, the niceness or the awfulness of the moment has already shifted.