I live in constant fear that one of these days, by hook or by crook (or nepotism, or sheer stupid luck) I will get a show at an actual gallery, and someone will stomp up to me at the opening, nostrils flared, and say, for example, "So what's the symbolism of the NAKED MOLE RAT, smart guy!?"

I would like to think that I would gulp out some kind of brilliantly extemporised response, possibly involving postmodernism, where I explain how the mole rat, the other hairless pink mammal, is in fact a symbol of our species, naked in the face of art, and the turnips symbolize...um...the connection with the earth...or something...and the goldfish in the bag is...err....the psyche...carried by...donkeys....

And then I'll curl into fetal position, whimpering, because hell, I just like naked mole rats and all the rest, and I have no good answers to anybody's demands that I explain symbolism.

Like this guy. I oughta have some great analysis of the artist as armadillo, emerging from its carapace to trek across the vast plain of art, stumbling into great stylized stone monuments of other armadillo-artists, by which to chart one's creative course, as one sets out, alone, armed only with a sense of the absurd.

But c'mon, let's face it, it's just a painting of an armadillo with a fish on a stick. Because sometimes, you wake up in the night and think "HEY! Armadillo shaped rocks!" and it all just goes from there.
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I'm not sure about this one. I can't say it didn't match my mental vision, because my mental visions are so brief and blurry that there's not really anything to match. Still, it almost feels more like a study for a painting than a completed painting for some reason. Part of it is that it's fairly simple, but I'm not sure if that's all of it. Not quite sure what it's missing, or what I should be doing to expand on it. I don't get the feeling that it's unfinished so much as that there's something else to do with the idea. It may need to percolate in the back of my brain for a bit, and maybe the little armadillo and the big stylized stone armadillos will all come together in some other fashion. I dunno.

Anyway! Painter 7, two days. PRINTS AVAILABLE! We have the 10$ prints, we have the $45 LE jumbo prints, you guys know the drill! Just send a note or an e-mail, and we can get it all set up.