Defined as an entanglement, a confused heap, an acutely painful misunderstanding, and a violently confused altercation; the animated disputes in Mort Walker’s Beetle Bailey came to mind – fists flying, gralixes (cartoon curses), feet and faces all spun up into a cloud of conflict. I wanted to try to capture this confused entanglement in 3D. I cut out several circles, painting them white, stenciling a few with various cartoon images of body parts and grawlixes, then overlapping them. But when lying flat, one overlapping another, they lacked animation. I tilted the scroll saw’s cutting surface to cut angled notches in the circles, then fit them together creating the 3D embroiled cloud I was looking for. I needed an observer to accentuate the quietude the dust-up was arising from. Officer Pup from Krazy Kat, witness to many scuffles between Krazy and Ignatz, came to mind.