Almost done! The second pic sucks. I'm off to buy a camera today so this stops happening. Can you spot the fly? It's nice to have the composition together, with all the elements and stuff I wanted to put in for meaning. It isn't just a figure anymore, but a painting with (questionable) meaning. No I don't know exactly what it means. That would be too didactic. But I will probably make something up for a statement....

It's hard to see the detail of the necklace in the pic. I think if I show it in a gallery I will show the necklace too, maybe in a shadowbox or something. (If I just hang it on the wall someone might steal it.) If you didn't know from earlier posts, the necklace is made from screws, nuts, washers, bolts and a razor blade, all braided into a string. I wish I could show what a wonderful sound it makes when one wears it. It's lovely coming from something so... industrial. It kind of extends the intention of the whole series... beauty and utilitarian and disposable objects, things that aren't commonly understood as beautiful painted in a way that is. (Cardboard boxes were the first, garbage bags, now flies, slugs, crows, decaying walls, fences, power poles.... I shouldn't give it ALL away, I'll spoil the surprise!)