A relentlessly busy painter, Reed spends virtually every night working on a chaise-lounge with the TV - mostly as background noise playing a baseball game, the latest DVDs or any one of a number of network drama series. In between larger works such as alphabets or major movements such as Chief Executives Underwater, he paints exquisitely detailed little sets of drawings, often in pen or pencil and watercolor or acrylic on Arches cover and puts them in found boxes, candy tins and the like to give to his friends and family.

This rare foray into animal portraiture was designed to fit an odd little paper candy box with an iris-like folding lid. The animals each appear on the back of their respective letters - some oriented to the horizontal axis, some turned 30 degrees so that they align with points of the hexagon at top and bottom. These drawings are presented at actual size here - scroll down to see each page.