(Un)finished Objects: "Cat under the Ginkgo Tree" - "Katze unter dem Ginkgobaum"

Where do all these unfinished objects come from? Suddenly, after having resolved to finish them before the end of this fall, I keep finding them everywhere, even though I try not to find them. Here's the most recent one:

Collage Painting

Meouw! Don't you envy me,

relaxing under the ginkgo tree?

Adventures and fights,

life's troubles and plights

will have to wait for a while.

I'm here to daydream and smile.

Not a single twig does stir ...

Purrrrr!

Oh, to be a cat!

This collage painting started out a hopeless case, just ugly colours, ugly doodles, no idea in sight. It rested in peace for some time. Being fed up with having a messed-up canvas lying around, I added several layers of colour to change the background and cover up the doodles as far as possible. After that, it rested some more. Then I cut up an older hopeless case, and put the better section aside to use later. Two remaining cut-offs went into the dustbin. The second they landed there, I thought: "What a waste!", and out they came again. A ginkgo leaf, picked up in a neighbouring street two years ago and stored away in a book, surfaced. That's when I remembered the messed-up canvas. By playing on it with the cut-offs and the leaf, my imagination was re-animated. From there, it was easy going.
The motif has now reached the stage that I call "compatible with myself". I declare the painting FINISHED!