[Rick Mullin]

Thanks Sharon... I figured out how to take it down in size.

This is more allegorical than anything else I've ever done. By a long shot.

I now see Pinocchio sailing on a typewriter boat with the watering can as its prow. And a lot of other stuff.

Lately I have just been opening my still life cabinet and piling things, making landscapes, usually. This time a staged vignette. Putting together the still life and painting it creates objective/subjective narrative. A lot of things, like the dolls, the mask, and the turtle head, have faces with fairly high levels of objective communication. Put the turtle head by the "old map" globe, and there be monsters.

One of the things I have been working on with the series is giving objects depth in the field without agonizing over it to the point of making them too static.

RM