My still lifes are painted on copper which is cut to shape. In eliminating the frame, the window which separates the painted image from the “real” world, the paintings themselves become less a view into space than something more like an object in its own right. I do not have any literal narrative underlying the compositions but think of the still lifes simply as collections in which, I hope,  the juxtaposition of objects might suggest interrelationships that are evocative in some manner. Some of the forms in the pictures are painted from actual objects but others are visualizations of invented forms that don’t actually exist. In that sense, the paintings may have an element of surrealism or possibly even elements that might seem dreamlike.