As I was separating the work to keep from work to toss, I wondered of I could remediate any of them, rescuing them (and me) from at least one of Dante's nine rings. Because the works were not going to be seen by anyone in their its current states I had nothing to lose by reworking them. Before starting the process I made a list of 6 subjects and 16 questions to consider. There are probably more, but this is where I started. [...]

This is a checklist I created to assess paintings that were destined to be tossed. Before tossing, though, I wondered if they could be redeemed? [...]