Created in 2020

I realized the reason I was scared to paint was because painting this forces me to accept our present reality, but it is also healing to take advantage of what humor there is in these moments. It is also a painting of gratitude, because I had not been able to get fresh bananas from Instacart for several days - and so I also had to paint these very quickly which is unlike me, as I needed to feed my family the bananas - usually I let my perishables sit around for days or weeks getting decomposed and rotten so that I can revisit whatever I can from the original foods for shadows, reflections and whatever other emanations originally inspired me.